Stranger Than Fiction
by Chuck Palahniuk | 
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley | 
It Chooses You
by Miranda July | 
How Did You Get This Number
by Sloane Crosley | 
Impossible Owls
by Brian Phillips | 
The View from the Cheap Seats
by Neil Gaiman | 
Other Colors
by Orhan Pamuk | 
Kafka's Other Trial
by Elias Canetti | 
Mishima
by Marguerite Yourcenar | 
Dancing Barefoot
by Wil Wheaton | 
Fates Worse Than Death
by Kurt Vonnegut | 
The Who, the What, and the When
by Jenny Volvovski | 
A Place in the Country
by W. G. Sebald |
Traveling Mercies
by Anne Lamott | 
Up in the Old Hotel
by Joseph Mitchell | 
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
by Joan Didion | 
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
by Ann Patchett | 
Moments of Being
by Virginia Woolf | 
The Nasty Bits
by Anthony Bourdain | 
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
by Cookie Mueller |
Discover how Lauren Kate transformed the feeling of that one mean girl getting under her skin into her first novel, how Lauren Oliver learned to celebrate ambiguity in her classmates and in herself, and how R.L. Stine turned being the "funny guy" into the best defense against the bullies in his class.