Cody Goodnight
Cody Goodnight asked Gretchen Felker-Martin:

What books inspire you as an author?

Gretchen Felker-Martin A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Lilith's Brood, Octavia Butler
The Books of Blood, Clive Barker
IT, Stephen King
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Melanie Tem
Psycho Nymph Exile, Porpentine
Tell Me I'm Worthless, Alison Rumfitt
Juniper, Monica Furlong
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Ulysses, James Joyce
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Lapvona, Ottessa Mosshfegh
A Universal History of Iniquity, Jorge Luis Borges
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Blindness, Jose Saramago
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson
From Hell, Alan Moore
Vision, Julia Gfrorer

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