Obviously, I’m a voracious reader. So I figured I’d share some of my favorite books and series which inspired me to try my hand at writing. Without further ado, the list:
- Jim Butcher – The Dresden Files (series); Codex Alera (series)
- Martha Wells – The Murderbot Diaries (series)
- Craig Alanson – Expeditionary Force (series)
- R.A. Salvatore – The Legend of Drizzt (multiple series)
- John Scalzi – Old Man’s War (series); Redshirts
- Marko Kloos – Frontline (series)
- Rick Partlow – Drop Troopers (series); Birthright (series)
- Joe Haldeman – The Forever War
- Sara King – The Legend of Zero (series)
- V. E. Schwab – Shades of Magic (series)
- Shane Stadler – Exoskeleton (series)
- Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) – We Were Soldiers Once… and Young (nonfiction)
- D.J. Molles – The Remaining (series); Lee Harden (series); Godbreaker (series)
- Troy Denning – The Twilight Giants (series)
- Barry Eisler – John Rain (series)
- Larry McMurtry – Lonesome Dove
- James Cook – Surviving the Dead (series)
- Dominic Greene – Smallworld (series)
- Benjamin Wallace – Duck and Cover Adventures (series)
- Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash; Seveneves
- Douglas Laux – Left of Boom (nonfiction)
- Evan Curie – Hayden’s War (series)
- George R. R. Martin – A Song of Ice and Fire (series)
- Michael Stephen Fuchs – Arisen (series)
- Randolph Lalonde – Spinward Fringe (series)
- Brandon Sanderson – Mistborn (series)