Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
The Egoist by George Meredith
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
1000 Books you must read before you die.
Ripe Characters
Writers need to suggest in some way that their characters are “ripe.” By that I mean a character has issues that arise from a story’s dramatic purpose and the story’s events compel them to resolve it.
