On Writing by Stephen  KingBird by Bird by Anne LamottThe Artist's Way by Julia CameronLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeWriting Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Best Books on Creative Life
508 books — 621 voters
The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónOutlander by Diana GabaldonMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Historical Fiction With a Dash of Magic
426 books — 710 voters

Southern Harm by Travis CaseyThe Patron Saint of Liars by Ann PatchettHunter's Horn by Harriette Simpson ArnowThe Kentuckians by Janice Holt GilesHannah Fowler by Janice Holt Giles
Kentucky Fiction
48 books — 20 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Princess Diaries by Meg CabotBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
Best Diary Novels
169 books — 266 voters
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferDracula by Bram StokerThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Epistolary Fiction
855 books — 848 voters

Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt StewartTomboy Bride by Harriet Fish BackusWe Pointed Them North by E.C. "Teddy Blue" AbbottDoc Susie by Virginia CornellA Bride Goes West by Nannie T. Alderson
The Old West in First Person
268 books — 48 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseBlood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
The American Frontier
685 books — 155 voters


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