Best Books on Writing

Looking for great books on craft? Check these out:

• Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert

• Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott

• Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction, Dinty W. Moore

• Making Shapely Fiction, Jerome Stern

• On Writing, Stephen King

• On Writing Well, William Zinsser

• Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose

• Spunk & Bite, Arthur Plotnik

• Tell It Slant, Brenda Miller & Suzanne Paola

• To Show and To Tell, Phillip Lopate

• The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr

• The Mindful Writer, Dinty W. Moore

• The Pocket Muse, Monica Wood

• The Situation and the Story, Vivian Gornick

• The Truth of the Matter, Dinty W. Moore

• The War of Art, Steven Pressfield

• The Writing Life, Annie Dillard

• Vivid and Continuous, John McNally

• Walking on Water, Derrick Jensen

• Wired for Story, Lisa Cron

• World Enough and Time, Christian McEwan

• Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg

• Writing for Story, Jon Franklin

• Writing From Life, Meg Files

• Writing What You Know, Meg Files

• Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury