> One thing that struck me is how much he reads. He had a list of suggested books to read in the back page, and there were probably hundreds

Here's the list, from the ebook I have at least:

- Abrahams, Peter: A Perfect Crime
- Abrahams, Peter: Lights Out
- Abrahams, Peter: Pressure Drop
- Abrahams, Peter: Revolution #9
- Agee, James: A Death in the Family
- Bakis, Kirsten: Lives of the Monster Dogs
- Barker, Pat: Regeneration
- Barker, Pat: The Eye in the Door
- Barker, Pat: The Ghost Road
- Bausch, Richard: In the Night Season
- Blauner, Peter: The Intruder
- Bowles, Paul: The Sheltering Sky
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan: The Tortilla Curtain
- Bryson, Bill: A Walk in the Woods
- Buckley, Christopher: Thank You for Smoking
- Carver, Raymond: Where I’m Calling From
- Chabon, Michael: Werewolves in Their Youth
- Chorlton, Windsor: Latitude Zero
- Connelly, Michael: The Poet
- Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
- Constantine, K. C.: Family Values
- DeLillo, Don: Underworld
- DeMille, Nelson: Cathedral
- DeMille, Nelson: The Gold Coast
- Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist
- Dobyns, Stephen: Common Carnage
- Dobyns, Stephen: The Church of Dead Girls
- Doyle, Roddy: The Woman Who Walked into Doors
- Elkin, Stanley: The Dick Gibson Show
- Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
- Garland, Alex: The Beach
- George, Elizabeth: Deception on His Mind
- Gerritsen, Tess: Gravity
- Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
- Gray, Muriel: Furnace
- Greene, Graham: A Gun for Sale (aka This Gun for Hire)
- Greene, Graham: Our Man in Havana
- Halberstam, David: The Fifties
- Hamill, Pete: Why Sinatra Matters
- Harris, Thomas: Hannibal
- Haruf, Kent: Plainsong
- Hoeg, Peter: Smilla’s Sense of Snow
- Hunter, Stephen: Dirty White Boys
- Ignatius, David: A Firing Offense
- Irving, John: A Widow for One Year
- Joyce, Graham: The Tooth Fairy
- Judd, Alan: The Devil’s Own Work
- Kahn, Roger: Good Enough to Dream
- Karr, Mary: The Liars’ Club
- Ketchum, Jack: Right to Life
- King, Tabitha: Survivor
- King, Tabitha: The Sky in the Water (unpublished)
- Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
- Krakauer, Jon: Into Thin Air
- Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lefkowitz, Bernard: Our Guys
- Little, Bentley: The Ignored
- Maclean, Norman: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
- Maugham, W. Somerset: The Moon and Sixpence
- McCarthy, Cormac: Cities of the Plain
- McCarthy, Cormac: The Crossing
- McCourt, Frank: Angela’s Ashes
- McDermott, Alice: Charming Billy
- McDevitt, Jack: Ancient Shores
- McEwan, Ian: Enduring Love
- McEwan, Ian: The Cement Garden
- McMurtry, Larry: Dead Man’s Walk
- McMurtry, Larry, and Diana Ossana: Zeke and Ned
- Miller, Walter M.: A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Oates, Joyce Carol: Zombie
- O’Brien, Tim: In the Lake of the Woods
- O’Nan, Stewart: The Speed Queen
- Ondaatje, Michael: The English Patient
- Patterson, Richard North: No Safe Place
- Price, Richard: Freedomland
- Proulx, Annie: Close Range: Wyoming Stories
- Proulx, Annie: The Shipping News
- Quindlen, Anna: One True Thing
- Rendell, Ruth: A Sight for Sore Eyes
- Robinson, Frank M.: Waiting
- Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban
- Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Russo, Richard: Mohawk
- Schwartz, John Burnham: Reservation Road
- Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy
- Shaw, Irwin: The Young Lions
- Slotkin, Richard: The Crater
- Smith, Dinitia: The Illusionist
- Spencer, Scott: Men in Black
- Stegner, Wallace: Joe Hill
- Tartt, Donna: The Secret History
- Tyler, Anne: A Patchwork Planet
- Vonnegut, Kurt: Hocus Pocus
- Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
- Westlake, Donald E.: The Ax