Because we know how important reading is to good writing, we asked all of this year’s young writers and instructors to share their book recommendations.
There’s quite a variety of books on the list, but as William Faulkner once said, “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write.”
Nesha Rand: Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Marshall Fike: Inferno by Dan Brown
Cassondra Chesterman: The Clockwork Three by Matthew J. Kirby
Andy Gabbard: Dune by Frank Herbert
Taylor Curtright: School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
Ella Bahr: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Gabriella Radina: Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer
Elizabeth Riforgiate: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Madison Nalley: The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
Meredith Stone: The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Elizabeth Underwood: Misery by Stephen King
Rick Brown: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Lexiyee Smith: The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Hunter Gilson: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
K-State Young Writers' Workshop 