The following is a list, in the order of appearance, of the books and movies referred to in the book The Eight Crafts of Writing.
- How to Plot and Outline Your Romance Novel
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
- Lord of the Rings
- A Christmas Carol
- The Alchemist
- Anna Karenina
- Lolita
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Gentlemen
- Passengers
- The Elephant Man
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Interview With the Vampire
- Hamlet
- Les Miserables
- Whiplash
- The Sopranos
- Breaking Bad
- The Alienist
- Umbrella Academy
- The Titanic
- Better Call Saul
- The Blacklist
- The 100
- New Amsterdam
- Uhtred/The Last Kingdom
- Alias Grace
- Illuminae
- The Museum of Innocence
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The Nazarene
- Gates of Fire
- Hunger Games
- Paladin of Souls
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
- Love You More
- War and Peace
- Tale of Two Cities
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- Words of Radiance
- The Lottery
- The Book Thief
- Gone Girl
- The Night Circus
- Brokeback Mountain
- Deep Point of View by Marcy Kennedy
- Tribes by Seth Godin
- Story by Robert McKee
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- Black Beauty
- Treasure Island
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Around the Earth in Eighty Days
- National Treasure
- Die Hard
- The Revenant
- Mad Max
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Pursuit of Happiness
- Murder on the Orient Express
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Night In Paradise
- The Bucket List
- Dumb and Dumber
- Toy Story
- Anger Management
- Thelma & Louise
- The Blues Brothers
- Lethal Weapon
- Bad Boys
- Starsky & Hutch
- Fathers And Daughters
- Real Steel
- A Family Man
- Firefly Lane
- Fame
- A Star is Born
- Godfather
- Elizabeth
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Dodgeball
- Rocky
- Limitless
- Whiplash
- Point Break
- Moneyball
- The Color of Money
- Cinderella Man
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- In Pursuit of Honor
- Unforgiven
- Wild Wild West
- The Assassination of Jesse James
- Django Unchained
- The Quick and the Dead
- We Were Soldiers
- 300
- Gates of Fire
- Inglourious Basterds
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Saving Private Ryan
- Band of Brothers
- Three Kings
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Platoon
- Casablanca
- Fight Club
- Walking Tall
- Silence
- Breaking Bad
- Star Wars
- Spiderman
- Batman Begins
- The Sixth Sense
- Shutter Island
- Total Recall
- Angel Heart
- Bourne Identity
- The Long Kiss Goodnight
- A Beautiful Mind
- Inside Out
- Frozen
- Anger Management
- Requiem for a Dream
- Clean and Sober
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Up
- Dumbo
- The Deer Hunter
- The Fisher King
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lion King
- Gone Girl
- No Country For Old Men
- Seven
- The Celestine Prophecy
- Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
- The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
- Black Swan
- The Machinist
- Memento
- The Humbling
- Ghostbusters
- Zombieland
- Brightburn
- Cowboys and Aliens
- Westworld
- Shaolin Soccer
- Outlander
- The Virgin’s Promise
- 2012
- Bird Box
- The Fugitive
- Outbreak
- Fist of Fury
- Pitch Black
- James Bond
- The Departed
- Godfather
- Predators
- Everest
- Working Girl
- War of the Worlds
- Alien
- Dante’s Peak
- Stranger Things
- Ocean’s Eleven
- Mission Impossible Fallout
- The Matrix
- Moby Dick
- The Count of Monte Christo
- Iron Man
- Transformers
- Mission Impossible
- Warcraft
- The Hunger Games
- Collateral
- Hitman’s Bodyguard
- Shazam
- Kung Fu Panda 3
- Mission Impossible — Ghost Protocol
- The Martian
- Conventions and Obligatory Moments
- Pulp Fiction
- Ransom
- Back to the Future
- Escape Room
- Escape from Alcatraz
- Papillon
- The Terminator
- The Game
- Saw
- State of Play
- Romeo and Juliet
- Fatal Attraction
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
- Rambo
- Joker
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- All Quiet On the Western Front
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Changeling
- Philadelphia
- Elephant Man
- A Time to Kill
- Crime and Punishment
- Perfume
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- The Dark Knight
- The Day After Tomorrow
- Black Sails
- Transcendence
- Mother!
- Troy
- The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
- Wonder Woman
- Shadow and Bone
- Noah
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- American Gods
- Sun Signs
- Getting Into Character
- Good Luck Chuck
- Better Call Saul
- Million Dollar Baby
- Ready Player One
- Identity
- CSI: Miami
- Saving Private Ryan
- Twilight
- Animal Farm
- Avatar
- Upside Down
- Interstellar
- Brokeback Mountain
- Snowpiercer
- No Exit
- Dune
- The Last Emperor
- Rise of the Phoenix
- The End of the F***ing World
- Techniques of the Selling Writer
- Little Dorrit
- Make Every Word Count
- Finding Nemo
- I kill Giants
- Dialogue by Robert McKee
- Dialogue by Marcy Kennedy
- How to Write Dazzling Dialogue
- In Our Time
- The House on Mango Street
- Einstein’s Dreams
- The Great Gatsby
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Sentinelle
- White Fang
- A Farewell To Arms
- Pride and Prejudice
- Catcher In the Rye
- The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
- In Brighton Rock
- Goldfinger
- The Road
- White Oleander
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- The Last Camel Died at Noon
- The Hobbit
- Peter Pan
- The Sympathizer
- Invisible Man
- Metamorphosis
- Everything I Never Told You
- Bel Canto
- The Vegetarian
