Reading List

(Books that influenced the writing of Hotliners and read while working at the hotline)

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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

Stay True by Hua Hsu

The Situation and The Story by Vivian Gornick

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller

Drinking at the Movies by Julia Wertz

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays by Hanif Abdurraqib

Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers

The Haunting by Shirley Jackson

In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

The Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob

Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me by Mark Leidner

Half Empty by David Rakoff

I Love Dick by Chris Kraus

Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman

(As a clinical manual, the descriptions of trauma can be difficult to read, but I highly recommend chapter 9 on Remembrance and Mourning.)