Fiction
THE BLIND ASSASSIN, Margaret Atwood
FINGERSMITH, Sarah Waters
THE BLOODY CHAMBER, Angela Carter
THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY, Suzy McKee Charnas
THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, Ray Bradbury
THE GORGON, Tanith Lee
DOOMSDAY BOOK, Connie Willis
DRACULA, Bram Stoker
FIGHT CLUB, Chuck Palahniuk

Nonfiction, how to write
THE ART OF FICTION, John Gardener
STORY, Robert McKee

Nonfiction, spirituality
All by Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen monk:
THE MIRACLE OF MINDFULNESS
BEING PEACE
ANGER

Links to Useful Sites

Read It First - St. Martin's offering of first chapters from its newest books http://read-it-first.com/
St. Martin's Press - my U.S. publisher
Amazon.com - the biggest bookstore in the world
Harriet Klausner's Review Archive, Amazon.com's #1 reviewer
Writer's Market, a good site for aspiring authors
Robert McKee's Story Seminar, another great site for aspiring authors
Vatican Museums, a virtual tour of the Vatican, for those interested in seeing where the Borgias practiced their treachery
A Bird's-eye View of the History of the Borgia Family
Google.com, an indispensable tool for historical researchers