Rick Riordan's Reading List

"I admire any biography that can bring its subject to life in such a vivid and relatable way."

"It was quite a challenge and took me about a year, but it was well worth the effort to appreciate the poetry in its original form."

"That changed when I discovered The Lord of the Rings, which was my gateway into fantasy, and from there into mythology and the wider world of literature."

"The most formative books I had read by age 21 were probably Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and The Habit of Being."

"The most formative books I had read by age 21 were probably Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and The Habit of Being, a collection of letters by Flannery O'Connor."