When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Writer

A Listmania! list by Mr. Philip Young "The Hopeless Amateur" (Gateshead)
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Women
1.  Women by Charles Bukowski
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  "The ultimate lesson in writing what you know and using life as art."
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Swing Hammer Swing
2.  Swing Hammer Swing by Jeff Torrington
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  "75 years old before his first book published. What an example."
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (Picador Books)
3.  The Bonfire of the Vanities (Picador Books) by Tom Wolfe
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  "If only I'd had an education."
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All Families are Psychotic
4.  All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
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  "Riding the zeitgeist but hanging onto the humanity."
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Nobody's Fool
5.  Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
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  "The book I should have written after never having an education."
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Bright Lights Big City # (Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback))
6.  Bright Lights Big City # (Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)) by Jay McInerney
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  "You will have to learn everything over again....."
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Water Music (The Penguin contemporary American fiction series)
7.  Water Music (The Penguin contemporary American fiction series) by T. Coraghessan Boyle
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  "The greatest book you never heard of."
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The Black Dahlia
8.  The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
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  "How to write in a genre, of your own."
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Money: A Suicide Note
9.  Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
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  "A book written from the depths you can hit before you rise."
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
10.  The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
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  "The global novel for when you want to conquer worlds."
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
11.  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
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  "History, politics and comic books. Inspiring."
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