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Best Books on Writing


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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

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