Best Books on Writing

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Writing Life Stories
Writing Life Stories 4.03 avg rating β€” 531 ratings
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Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction
Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction 3.65 avg rating β€” 139 ratings
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Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoirs
Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoirs 4.37 avg rating β€” 354 ratings
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The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews 4.12 avg rating β€” 132 ratings
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Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath
Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath 4.05 avg rating β€” 771 ratings
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Writing a Woman's Life
Writing a Woman's Life 4.10 avg rating β€” 972 ratings
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I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
I Write What I Like: Selected Writings 4.37 avg rating β€” 2,700 ratings
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Emotion Amplifiers
Emotion Amplifiers 4.40 avg rating β€” 1,334 ratings
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 4.33 avg rating β€” 2,826 ratings
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Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction 3.92 avg rating β€” 1,477 ratings
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The Poet's Handbook
The Poet's Handbook 3.78 avg rating β€” 87 ratings
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Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose
Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose 4.42 avg rating β€” 1,721 ratings
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Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder
Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder 4.47 avg rating β€” 707 ratings
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Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts into Books
Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts into Books 3.78 avg rating β€” 125 ratings
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The Word-Loss Diet
The Word-Loss Diet 4.37 avg rating β€” 250 ratings
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Leyla's Locket (Sera Chronicles, #1)
Leyla's Locket (Sera Chronicles, #1) 3.79 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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Writing Advice for Teens: Creating Stories
Writing Advice for Teens: Creating Stories 4.37 avg rating β€” 49 ratings
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Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter
Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter 4.51 avg rating β€” 2,587 ratings
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The Lively Art of Writing
The Lively Art of Writing 3.81 avg rating β€” 539 ratings
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Groovy Cool Writing Techniques
Groovy Cool Writing Techniques 4.65 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of a Blockbuster Novel
The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of a Blockbuster Novel 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,243 ratings
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Stevens: Poems
Stevens: Poems 4.25 avg rating β€” 130 ratings
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How to Read
How to Read 4.29 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process 4.09 avg rating β€” 4,187 ratings
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Sorry for the Lobsters
Sorry for the Lobsters 4.27 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
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Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook
Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook 4.32 avg rating β€” 1,388 ratings
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How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method
How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method 4.24 avg rating β€” 2,817 ratings
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Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational Arc
Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational Arc 4.45 avg rating β€” 473 ratings
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The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within
The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within
by: Alan Watt
3.93 avg rating β€” 651 ratings
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The Romantic Manifesto
The Romantic Manifesto
by: Ayn Rand
3.76 avg rating β€” 3,501 ratings
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work 3.65 avg rating β€” 20,650 ratings
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Writing Mysteries
Writing Mysteries 3.78 avg rating β€” 627 ratings
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What It Is
What It Is 4.17 avg rating β€” 23,328 ratings
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The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know
The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,903 ratings
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Literary Taste
Literary Taste 3.36 avg rating β€” 520 ratings
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Immediate Fiction: A Complete Writing Course
Immediate Fiction: A Complete Writing Course 4.14 avg rating β€” 757 ratings
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die 3.98 avg rating β€” 97,579 ratings
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The Magus
The Magus 4.05 avg rating β€” 62,317 ratings
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Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
by: Various
4.59 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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How to Write Fast
How to Write Fast 3.80 avg rating β€” 35 ratings
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Do the Work
Do the Work 3.97 avg rating β€” 20,735 ratings
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Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen
Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen 3.37 avg rating β€” 1,208 ratings
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Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story 4.20 avg rating β€” 4,332 ratings
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The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House
The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House 4.13 avg rating β€” 371 ratings
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Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom 4.39 avg rating β€” 660 ratings
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Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8)
Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8) 3.87 avg rating β€” 30,062 ratings
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How to Write Best Selling Fiction
How to Write Best Selling Fiction 4.03 avg rating β€” 229 ratings
284.
Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
Neuromancer (Sprawl #1) 3.89 avg rating β€” 354,053 ratings
287.
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Foundation (Foundation, #1) 4.17 avg rating β€” 580,900 ratings
287.
The Freedom Writers Diary
The Freedom Writers Diary 4.15 avg rating β€” 18,485 ratings
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On Teaching and Writing Fiction
On Teaching and Writing Fiction 4.15 avg rating β€” 365 ratings
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Writing About Your Life: A Journey into the Past
Writing About Your Life: A Journey into the Past 4.10 avg rating β€” 660 ratings
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The Paris Wife
The Paris Wife 3.82 avg rating β€” 302,769 ratings
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American Dialects
American Dialects 4.33 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Horses
The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Horses 3.88 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Grammar And Punctuation
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Grammar And Punctuation really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Conflict and Suspense
Conflict and Suspense 4.26 avg rating β€” 921 ratings