My Book List Recommendations - Feel free to ask me why!

I was asked to speak to a media class about my experiences and thoughts on the future of the show business. At the end of the class I recommended some books for the students to read that I felt would help them on their journey.

Here's my list:

1. Book Recommendations

   • The Movie Business Book - Jason Squire

   • The Anatomy of Story - John Truby

   • Sell or Be Sold - Grant Gardone

   • The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs - Carmine Gallo

   • The Power of Human Connection - Kody Bateman

   • The Art of Dramatic Writing - Lajos Egri

   • Reading the Silver Screen - Thomas C. Foster (bonuses: How to Read Literature Like a Professor, How to Read Novels Like a Professor)

   • Three Uses of the Knife (On the Nature and Purpose of Drama) - David Mamet

   • Rising Strong - Brene Brown

   • Into the Woods, A Five Act Journey into Story - John Yorke

   • The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

For Screenwriters:

• Save the Cat by Blake Snyder

• Your Screenplay Sucks by William M. Ackers

• Inside Story by Dara Marks

• The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers by Christopher Vogler

• Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman

Bonus books:

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (because this is a good 'yarn' and has so many lessons for us today)

• Thank you for Arguing by Jay Heinrichs (you have to know the art of persuasion - plus it references how Homer Simpson can teach us about the art of persuasion!)