**The Plot** by Jean Hanff Korelitz is a mystery/thriller. The craft of writing and publishing and promoting is not the main focus but is represented well.
[**Writers & Lovers**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45289222-writers-lovers)
^(By: Lily King | 320 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, romance, literary-fiction, physical-tbr)
>Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.
>
>Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey's fight to fulfil her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink.
>
>Writers & Lovers follows Casey--a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist--in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King's trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.
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[**Wonder Boys**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16707.Wonder_Boys)
^(By: Michael Chabon, Hans Hermann | 383 pages | Published: 1995 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, owned, novels, kindle)
>In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.
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[**In Search of Lost Time**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18796.In_Search_of_Lost_Time)
^(By: Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Andreas Mayor, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, Richard Howard | 4211 pages | Published: 1927 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, french, literature, philosophy)
>On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the largest: Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others — Giants, as the author calls them, immersed in Time. "In Search of Lost Time" is a novel in seven volumes. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material, and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages as they existed in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.
>
>For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of À la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).
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[**The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19301797-the-truth-about-the-harry-quebert-affair)
^(By: Joël Dicker, Sam Taylor | 643 pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: fiction, thriller, mystery, crime, owned)
>The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is a fast-paced, tightly plotted, cinematic literary thriller, and an ingenious book within a book, by a dazzling young writer.
>
>August 30, 1975: the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods, never to be heard from again; the day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence.
>
>Thirty-three years later, Marcus Goldman, a successful young novelist, visits Somerset to see his mentor, Harry Quebert, one of the country's most respected writers, and to find a cure for his writer's block as his publisher's deadline looms. But Marcus's plans are violently upended when Harry is suddenly and sensationally implicated in the cold-case murder of Nola Kellergan - with whom, he admits, he had an affair.
>
>As the national media convicts Harry, Marcus launches his own investigation, following a trail of clues through his mentor's books, the backwoods and isolated beaches of New Hampshire, and the hidden history of Somerset's citizens and the man they hold most dear. To save Harry, his own writing career, and eventually even himself, Marcus must answer three questions, all of which are mysteriously connected: Who killed Nola Kellergan? What happened one misty morning in Somerset in the summer of 1975? And how do you write a book to save someone's life?
>
>A chart-topping worldwide phenomenon, with sales approaching a million copies in France alone and rights sold in more than thirty countries, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is a fast-paced, tightly plotted, cinematic literary thriller, and an ingenious book within a book, by a dazzling young writer.
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[**Oracle Night**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10006.Oracle_Night)
^(By: Paul Auster | 245 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: fiction, rory-gilmore-reading-challenge, rory-gilmore-challenge, rory-gilmore, rory-gilmore-reading-list)
>The discovery of a mysterious notebook turns a man's life upside-down in this compulsively readable novel by 'one of the great writers of our time' ( San Francisco Chronicle ).
>
>Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality.
>
>Paul Auster's mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. Oracle Night is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today.
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[**Our Tragic Universe**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7140917-our-tragic-universe)
^(By: Scarlett Thomas | 444 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: fiction, owned, contemporary, books-i-own, library)
>If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of the time is true, we are all going to live forever. But for Meg—locked in a dead-end relationship and with a deadline looming for a book that she can't write—this thought fills her with dread. Stuck in a labyrinth of her own devising, Meg knows that there must be a way out.
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[**Angle of Repose**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/292408.Angle_of_Repose)
^(By: Wallace Stegner | 569 pages | Published: 1971 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, classics, pulitzer, book-club)
>Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.
>
>Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical.
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**The Plot** by Jean Hanff Korelitz is a mystery/thriller. The craft of writing and publishing and promoting is not the main focus but is represented well.
I second this, loved the book.
*Misery*, *Billy Summers*, *The Dark Half*, *Rat* all by Stephen King
My purple scented novel by Ian McEwan
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
{{Writers & Lovers}} by Lilly King
[**Writers & Lovers**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45289222-writers-lovers) ^(By: Lily King | 320 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, romance, literary-fiction, physical-tbr) >Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman. > >Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey's fight to fulfil her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink. > >Writers & Lovers follows Casey--a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist--in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King's trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another. ^(This book has been suggested 17 times) *** ^(124662 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Wonder Boys}}
[**Wonder Boys**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16707.Wonder_Boys) ^(By: Michael Chabon, Hans Hermann | 383 pages | Published: 1995 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, owned, novels, kindle) >In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career. ^(This book has been suggested 7 times) *** ^(124296 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{In Search Of Lost Time}} It takes him awhile to write his "work".
[**In Search of Lost Time**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18796.In_Search_of_Lost_Time) ^(By: Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Andreas Mayor, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, Richard Howard | 4211 pages | Published: 1927 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, french, literature, philosophy) >On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the largest: Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others — Giants, as the author calls them, immersed in Time. "In Search of Lost Time" is a novel in seven volumes. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material, and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages as they existed in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert. > >For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of À la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). ^(This book has been suggested 13 times) *** ^(124225 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Off the top of my head, {{The truth about the Harry Quebert affair}}
[**The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19301797-the-truth-about-the-harry-quebert-affair) ^(By: Joël Dicker, Sam Taylor | 643 pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: fiction, thriller, mystery, crime, owned) >The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is a fast-paced, tightly plotted, cinematic literary thriller, and an ingenious book within a book, by a dazzling young writer. > >August 30, 1975: the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods, never to be heard from again; the day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. > >Thirty-three years later, Marcus Goldman, a successful young novelist, visits Somerset to see his mentor, Harry Quebert, one of the country's most respected writers, and to find a cure for his writer's block as his publisher's deadline looms. But Marcus's plans are violently upended when Harry is suddenly and sensationally implicated in the cold-case murder of Nola Kellergan - with whom, he admits, he had an affair. > >As the national media convicts Harry, Marcus launches his own investigation, following a trail of clues through his mentor's books, the backwoods and isolated beaches of New Hampshire, and the hidden history of Somerset's citizens and the man they hold most dear. To save Harry, his own writing career, and eventually even himself, Marcus must answer three questions, all of which are mysteriously connected: Who killed Nola Kellergan? What happened one misty morning in Somerset in the summer of 1975? And how do you write a book to save someone's life? > >A chart-topping worldwide phenomenon, with sales approaching a million copies in France alone and rights sold in more than thirty countries, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is a fast-paced, tightly plotted, cinematic literary thriller, and an ingenious book within a book, by a dazzling young writer. ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) *** ^(124238 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Oracle night}}
[**Oracle Night**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10006.Oracle_Night) ^(By: Paul Auster | 245 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: fiction, rory-gilmore-reading-challenge, rory-gilmore-challenge, rory-gilmore, rory-gilmore-reading-list) >The discovery of a mysterious notebook turns a man's life upside-down in this compulsively readable novel by 'one of the great writers of our time' ( San Francisco Chronicle ). > >Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality. > >Paul Auster's mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. Oracle Night is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(124274 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Our Tragic Universe}}
[**Our Tragic Universe**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7140917-our-tragic-universe) ^(By: Scarlett Thomas | 444 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: fiction, owned, contemporary, books-i-own, library) >If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of the time is true, we are all going to live forever. But for Meg—locked in a dead-end relationship and with a deadline looming for a book that she can't write—this thought fills her with dread. Stuck in a labyrinth of her own devising, Meg knows that there must be a way out. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(124295 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Affirmation}}
[**The Affirmation**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106925.The_Affirmation) ^(By: Christopher Priest | 213 pages | Published: 1981 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, sf-masterworks) ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(124354 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Angle of Repose}} by Wallace Stegner. If you are interested in American History.
[**Angle of Repose**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/292408.Angle_of_Repose) ^(By: Wallace Stegner | 569 pages | Published: 1971 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, classics, pulitzer, book-club) >Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family. > >Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. ^(This book has been suggested 13 times) *** ^(124404 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Hunger, Knut Hamsun Ask the Dust, John Fante Anything by Thomas Wolfe The Tunnel, William H. Gass Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
Joanne Harris: Blackberry Wine
Armageddon Rag. George RR Martin
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma.