Reading List

These are a Few of My Favorite Reads by HM WardPeople ask me all the time, “What’s a good book to read?”  This is a list of some of my favorite titles.  Some are old.  Some are new.  Some you’ve probably never heard of.  And some are business reads about marketing and selling.  Mine are at the bottom of the list.

Books with an * was a favorite.

 

Business Books:  Must Reads for the Self-Employed

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Barfam

Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill

The Art of Closing the Sale by Brian Tracy

The Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy

 

H.M. WARD (aka MY BOOKS & MAJOR MILESTONES)

DEMON KISSED – debut novel written in 2010, agented and shopped in NY, pulled MS and pubbed in 2011. See why in this Forbes article about me.

SCANDALOUS – 1st book to hit a list (NYT & USA Today) Jan 2013, approx 9 months after publication.

DAMAGED – 1st book to hit #1 in the entire Amazon Store – April 2013

THE ARRANGEMENT – 1st series to sell over 1 million copies – late 2013/ early 2014

More of H.M.’s milestone books will be listed soon!

 

TAHEREH MAFI

Shatter Me*

SAMMIE SPENCER

Amaretto Flame*

VERONICA ROTH

Divergent*

KAREN MARIE MONING

Darkfever

Bloodfever*

Faefever

HARLAN COBEN

The Woods

NEIL GAIMAN

Stardust*

WILLIAM GOLDMAN

The Princess Bride*

G.K CHESTERTON

The Man Who Was Thursday

D. BARRY & R. PEARSON

Peter & the Starcatchers

Peter & the Shadow Thieves*

Peter & the Secret of Rundoon

Peter & the Sword of Mercy

ALYSON NOEL

Evermore

KIM HARRISON

Dead Witch Walking

The Good the Bad and the Undead

Every Witch Way But Dead

A Fist Full of Charms

JESSICA DAY GEORGE

Princess of the Midnight Ball**

Dragon Slippers**

Dragon Spear

Dragon Flight

PHILIPPA GREGORY

The Boleyn Inheritance

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Constant Princess

The Queen’s Fool

BARBARA KYLE

The Queens Lady**

STEPHANIE MYER

Twilight*

Eclipse

New Moon

Breaking Dawn

JAMES PATTERSON

Along Came a Spider*

RICHELLE MEAD

Vampire Academy*

VA: Frostbite*

VA: Shadow Kiss**

VA: Blood Promise*

VA: Spirit Bound*

VA: Last Sacrifice*

Bloodlines

Storm Born

Succubus Blues*

Succubus on Top*

Succubus Dreams

Succubus Heat

Succubus Shadows

Thorn Queen

GAIL CARRIGER

Souless 

SUZANNE COLLINS

The Hunger Games*

Catching Fire

Mocking Jay

JANET EVANOVICH

One for the Money*

Two for the Dough

Three to Get Deadly

Four to Score

High Five

Hot Six*

Seven Up

SHANNON HALE

Princess Academy*

The Goose Girl

Enna Burning***

River Secrets*

Forest Born

JULIET MARILLIER

Daughter of the Forest

Son of Shadows

Child of the Prophecy

RICK RIORDAN

The Percy Jackson Lightening Thief Series

The Lost Hero

LAURA WHITCOMB

A Certain Slant of Light* (really good & kinda creepy)

CHLOE NEIL

Some Girls Bite*

Friday Night Bites

EOIN COFFER

Artemis Fowl Series

Artemis Fowl: Arctic Incident*

Artemis Fowl: Lost Colony*

Artemis Fowl: Time Paradox*

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Eragon*, Eldest*, Brisingr & Inheritance

PC & KRISTIN CAST

Marked*

Betrayed*

Chosen*

Untamed

RACHEL CAINE

Glass Houses

J.K. ROWLING

Tales of Beedle the Bard

Harry Potter: Sorcerers’s Stone, Chamber of Secrets*, Prisoner of Azkaban**,  Goblet of Fire*, Order of the Phoenix*, The Half Blood Prince*, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows*

MELISSA DE LA CRUZ

Blue Boods

Masquerade

 

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *