Books on Writing

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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Shining (The Shining, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 1,650,441 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 4.34 avg rating — 310,130 ratings
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The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style 4.18 avg rating — 86,240 ratings
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Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo (Novel and Creative Writing Book, National Novel Writing Month NaNoWriMo Guide)
Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo (Novel and Creative Writing Book, National Novel Writing Month NaNoWriMo Guide) 4.11 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice
Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting 4.27 avg rating — 17,106 ratings
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Painting Dragons: What Storytellers Need to Know About Writing Eunuch Villains
Painting Dragons: What Storytellers Need to Know About Writing Eunuch Villains 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Scream Writer's Handbook: How to Write a Terrifying Screenplay in 10 Bloody Steps
The Scream Writer's Handbook: How to Write a Terrifying Screenplay in 10 Bloody Steps 3.73 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Influential Author: How and Why to Write, Publish, and Sell Nonfiction Books That Matter (2nd Edition)
The Influential Author: How and Why to Write, Publish, and Sell Nonfiction Books That Matter (2nd Edition) 4.59 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Book Title Generator: A Proven System in Naming Your Book
Book Title Generator: A Proven System in Naming Your Book 4.08 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer
Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer 3.96 avg rating — 985 ratings
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On Writers and Writing
On Writers and Writing 3.67 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Bird by Bird
Bird by Bird 4.24 avg rating — 108,481 ratings
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The Pursuit of Perfection: And How It Harms Writers
The Pursuit of Perfection: And How It Harms Writers 4.27 avg rating — 205 ratings
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The Grammar Daily: 365 Quick Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl
The Grammar Daily: 365 Quick Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl 4.71 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers 3.99 avg rating — 6,231 ratings
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The Big Nickel
The Big Nickel 2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Writing into the Dark: How to Write a Novel without an Outline
Writing into the Dark: How to Write a Novel without an Outline 4.05 avg rating — 843 ratings
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How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide 3.99 avg rating — 4,157 ratings
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Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice
Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice 3.63 avg rating — 321 ratings
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250 Things You Should Know About Writing
250 Things You Should Know About Writing 3.99 avg rating — 1,571 ratings
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Straight Man
Straight Man really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,972 ratings
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Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing: A WMG Writer's Guide
Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing: A WMG Writer's Guide 4.30 avg rating — 178 ratings
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45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters
45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters 3.90 avg rating — 1,430 ratings
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500 Ways to Be a Better Writer
500 Ways to Be a Better Writer 4.27 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Writing Prompts Decoded: Creative Prompt Ideas To Create Content For Your Fiction Book
Writing Prompts Decoded: Creative Prompt Ideas To Create Content For Your Fiction Book it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Writing Workshop Note Book: Notes on Creating and Workshopping
The Writing Workshop Note Book: Notes on Creating and Workshopping 3.91 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Kick-Ass Writer: 1001 Ways to Write Great Fiction, Get Published, and Earn Your Audience
The Kick-Ass Writer: 1001 Ways to Write Great Fiction, Get Published, and Earn Your Audience 4.11 avg rating — 919 ratings
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Firefly Magic: Heart Powered Marketing for Highly Sensitive Writers
Firefly Magic: Heart Powered Marketing for Highly Sensitive Writers 4.60 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Confessions of a Freelance Penmonkey
Confessions of a Freelance Penmonkey 4.25 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Revenge of the Penmonkey
Revenge of the Penmonkey 4.23 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within 4.21 avg rating — 31,306 ratings
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The Forest for the Trees
The Forest for the Trees 3.94 avg rating — 3,139 ratings
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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed 4.10 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose 3.94 avg rating — 2,337 ratings
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On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association
On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association 3.87 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing 3.84 avg rating — 367 ratings
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642 Things to Write About
642 Things to Write About 4.17 avg rating — 864 ratings
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The No Plot? No Problem! Novel-Writing Kit
The No Plot? No Problem! Novel-Writing Kit 3.92 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Novelist's Boot Camp: 101 Ways to Take Your Book From Boring to Bestseller
Novelist's Boot Camp: 101 Ways to Take Your Book From Boring to Bestseller 3.58 avg rating — 142 ratings
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A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning & Life
A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning & Life 3.91 avg rating — 370 ratings
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The Writing Life
The Writing Life 3.98 avg rating — 18,001 ratings
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Naked, Drunk, and Writing: Writing Essays and Memoirs for Love and for Money
Naked, Drunk, and Writing: Writing Essays and Memoirs for Love and for Money 4.13 avg rating — 517 ratings
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Fangirl
Fangirl 3.94 avg rating — 772,424 ratings
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Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish 4.11 avg rating — 5,936 ratings
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Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
by: Lisa Cron
4.20 avg rating — 6,138 ratings
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,156 ratings
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Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2)
Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2) 3.81 avg rating — 21,068 ratings
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The Dark Half
The Dark Half 3.81 avg rating — 149,874 ratings
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing 3.90 avg rating — 4,922 ratings
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A Writer's Life
A Writer's Life 3.82 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Letters to a Young Artist
Letters to a Young Artist 4.03 avg rating — 854 ratings
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Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do 3.89 avg rating — 2,782 ratings
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation 3.87 avg rating — 106,069 ratings
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work 3.65 avg rating — 20,652 ratings
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Writing from the Senses: 59 Exercises to Ignite Creativity and Revitalize Your Writing
Writing from the Senses: 59 Exercises to Ignite Creativity and Revitalize Your Writing 3.92 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma
Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma 4.25 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Pep Talks, Warnings, And Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom And Cautionary Advice For Writers
Pep Talks, Warnings, And Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom And Cautionary Advice For Writers 3.81 avg rating — 103 ratings
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How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice 4.32 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Architecture of the Novel: A Writer's Handbook
Architecture of the Novel: A Writer's Handbook 3.75 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear 3.96 avg rating — 228,781 ratings
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How to Write a Dirty Story: Reading, Writing, and Publishing Erotica
How to Write a Dirty Story: Reading, Writing, and Publishing Erotica 3.82 avg rating — 268 ratings
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The Writer's Chapbook A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, and Advice from the Twentieth Century's Preeminent Writers
The Writer's Chapbook A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, and Advice from the Twentieth Century's Preeminent Writers 4.17 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating — 96,898 ratings
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Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet 4.28 avg rating — 113,858 ratings
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Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 117,398 ratings
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Wonder Boys
Wonder Boys 3.93 avg rating — 36,826 ratings
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Harriet the Spy
Harriet the Spy 3.95 avg rating — 100,375 ratings
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Blue Angel
Blue Angel 3.38 avg rating — 3,845 ratings
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Writing to the Point: A Complete Guide to Selling Fiction
Writing to the Point: A Complete Guide to Selling Fiction 3.88 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Writing Life: Writers On How They Think And Work
The Writing Life: Writers On How They Think And Work 3.70 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors
Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors 4.19 avg rating — 529 ratings
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Stein on Writing
Stein on Writing
by: Sol Stein
4.28 avg rating — 4,734 ratings
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction 4.24 avg rating — 30,212 ratings
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Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go
Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go 4.02 avg rating — 1,945 ratings
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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life 4.29 avg rating — 1,869 ratings
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The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller 4.25 avg rating — 7,030 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,477 ratings
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Art and Fear
Art and Fear 3.77 avg rating — 100,518 ratings
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The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story 4.15 avg rating — 984 ratings