This is a list of the books referenced on the Writing Forge Creative Writing course. They are designed to illustrate the goal of each module but don't worry if you can't read them all; the list is comprehensive and if you can read only one from each module, choose the asterisked selection.

Module 1

• Surfacing (Margaret Atwood; Virago) *

Module 2

• The Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk; Little, Brown and Co)

• Catch-22 (Joseph Heller; Vintage) *

Module 3

• The Lovely Bones (Alice Seabold; Picador)

• The Long Firm (Jake Arnott; Sceptre)
• The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer; Flamingo) *

Module 4

• Where I'm Calling From - The Selected Stories (Raymond Carver; Harvill)

• White Noise (Don DeLillo; Picador)
• No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre; Vintage)

Module 5

• Trainspotting (Irving Welsh; Vintage)

• Objects of Desire (CJ Emerson; Allison & Busby)

Module 6

• The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler; Penguin) *

• Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks; Vintage)

Module 7

• Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golem (Peter Ackroyd; Minerva) *

Module 8

• Survivor (Chuck Palahniuk; Vintage) *

• The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy; Flamingo)
• Talking It Over (Julian Barns; Picador)

Module 6

• The State-Of-The-Art (Iain M. Banks; Orbit)

• Small Gods (Terry Pratchett; Corgi) *
• Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (Ursula le Guin; Plume)

Module 6

• Feersum Endjinn (Iain M Banks; Orbit)

• Writers and Artists Yearbook (A & C Black)
• Fowler's Modern English Usage (Oxford University Press)
• The Elements of Style (Strunk & White; Longman)
• A good dictionary