Best Books on The Writing Life

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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 4.34 avg rating — 310,116 ratings
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Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings 4.27 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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Bird by Bird
Bird by Bird 4.24 avg rating — 108,479 ratings
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Self-Publishing In the Eye of the Storm
Self-Publishing In the Eye of the Storm 4.62 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew 4.23 avg rating — 5,767 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 — 31,305 ratings
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Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life
Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life 3.97 avg rating — 1,470 ratings
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity 3.95 avg rating — 116,870 ratings
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On Becoming a Novelist
On Becoming a Novelist 4.10 avg rating — 3,090 ratings
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How to Write a Memoir - procrastination to print made simple
How to Write a Memoir - procrastination to print made simple 3.58 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Be An Author
Be An Author 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Self-Publishing Manual : How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 15th Ed.
The Self-Publishing Manual : How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 15th Ed. 4.02 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Secrets to Writing Well - Volume 1
Secrets to Writing Well - Volume 1 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Put Them Through the Maze: The Secrets of How to Write the Ultimate Novel
Put Them Through the Maze: The Secrets of How to Write the Ultimate Novel 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Now What? The Creative Writer's Guide to Success After the MFA
Now What? The Creative Writer's Guide to Success After the MFA 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Booklish: The Simple, Comprehensive Guide to Successfully Writing and Publishing Your Book
Booklish: The Simple, Comprehensive Guide to Successfully Writing and Publishing Your Book 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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How to Write Fiction: Tools and Techniques
How to Write Fiction: Tools and Techniques 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
by: Lisa Cron
4.21 avg rating — 5,391 ratings
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Author for Life or for a Living?: How to Stay Sane & Alive when Everything & Everyone Brings you Down: Manifesto for Real Writers
Author for Life or for a Living?: How to Stay Sane & Alive when Everything & Everyone Brings you Down: Manifesto for Real Writers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 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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Title to Come
Title to Come 4.50 avg rating — 2 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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So You Want To Be A Writer: How to get started
So You Want To Be A Writer: How to get started 4.23 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Ten Steps to Journaling: How to Start a Journal or Diary
The Ten Steps to Journaling: How to Start a Journal or Diary
by: A.C. Zito
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Writers Revenge: Four Authors and the Publisher from Hell
Writers Revenge: Four Authors and the Publisher from Hell 2.87 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Cosmic Playbook for Writers: 30 Vital Mini Meditations to Boost Your Creativity, Resilience & Passion
The Cosmic Playbook for Writers: 30 Vital Mini Meditations to Boost Your Creativity, Resilience & Passion 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Inspired Guide to Writing the Short Story: Lessons and Workbook for Students and Educators
Inspired Guide to Writing the Short Story: Lessons and Workbook for Students and Educators it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Please Write in this Book
Please Write in this Book 3.89 avg rating — 570 ratings
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How to Write Funny Characters
How to Write Funny Characters 4.32 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Desperate Author's Guide To Selling More Books : 89 tips and tricks. Avoid the fear of failure, imagine big, and attract more readers
The Desperate Author's Guide To Selling More Books : 89 tips and tricks. Avoid the fear of failure, imagine big, and attract more readers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Storytellers: Straight Talk from the World's Most Acclaimed Suspense & Thriller Authors
The Storytellers: Straight Talk from the World's Most Acclaimed Suspense & Thriller Authors 4.01 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Wild Words: Rituals, Routines, and Rhythms for Braving the Writer's Path
Wild Words: Rituals, Routines, and Rhythms for Braving the Writer's Path 4.01 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Seeking Wisdom
Seeking Wisdom 3.68 avg rating — 355 ratings
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The Novel Editing Workbook: 105 Tricks & Tips for Revising Your Fiction Manuscript
The Novel Editing Workbook: 105 Tricks & Tips for Revising Your Fiction Manuscript 4.41 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Brand the Author (Not the Book): A Workbook for Writing & Launching Your Own Author Brand Plan
Brand the Author (Not the Book): A Workbook for Writing & Launching Your Own Author Brand Plan 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults
The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults 4.41 avg rating — 563 ratings
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination 4.34 avg rating — 2,738 ratings
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Start Your Own Self Publishing Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success (StartUp Series)
Start Your Own Self Publishing Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success (StartUp Series) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You 4.08 avg rating — 20,955 ratings
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Finishing School: The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can't Seem to Get Done
Finishing School: The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can't Seem to Get Done 3.69 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers
Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers 4.26 avg rating — 117 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 — 984 ratings
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The Magic of Fiction
The Magic of Fiction
by: Beth Hill
4.36 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Writing and Publishing: The Ultimate Teen Guide (It Happened to Me) (Volume 27)
Writing and Publishing: The Ultimate Teen Guide (It Happened to Me) (Volume 27) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Rhetoric of Fiction
The Rhetoric of Fiction 4.01 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
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Around the Writer's Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer's Resistance
Around the Writer's Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer's Resistance 4.22 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Imagination According to Humphrey (According to Humphrey #11)
Imagination According to Humphrey (According to Humphrey #11) 4.37 avg rating — 702 ratings
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Living the Artist's Way
Living the Artist's Way 3.31 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Second Sight: An Editor's Talks on Writing, Revising, and Publishing Books for Children and Young Adults
Second Sight: An Editor's Talks on Writing, Revising, and Publishing Books for Children and Young Adults 4.50 avg rating — 423 ratings
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Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? 4.53 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Presenting Robert Cormier
Presenting Robert Cormier 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Take Joy: The Writers Guide To Loving The Craft
Take Joy: The Writers Guide To Loving The Craft 4.06 avg rating — 527 ratings
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The Rational Writer: Nuts and Bolts
The Rational Writer: Nuts and Bolts 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble
Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble 4.22 avg rating — 1,793 ratings
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How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights
How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights 4.04 avg rating — 631 ratings
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Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain 3.90 avg rating — 808 ratings
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The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations & Books
The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations & Books 3.81 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Love That Dog (Jack, #1)
Love That Dog (Jack, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 47,526 ratings
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On Writing
On Writing 4.03 avg rating — 4,673 ratings
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First You Write: The Worst Way to Become an Almost Famous Author And The Best Advice I Got While Doing It
First You Write: The Worst Way to Become an Almost Famous Author And The Best Advice I Got While Doing It 3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings
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S. E. Hinton
S. E. Hinton 3.67 avg rating — 30 ratings
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A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,443 ratings
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Free Verse
Free Verse 4.11 avg rating — 826 ratings
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I Have Words to Spend: Reflections of a Small-Town Editor
I Have Words to Spend: Reflections of a Small-Town Editor 3.97 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Wrede on Writing: Tips, Hints, and Opinions on Writing
Wrede on Writing: Tips, Hints, and Opinions on Writing 4.16 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Rhyme Schemer
Rhyme Schemer
by: K.A. Holt
3.96 avg rating — 2,995 ratings
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Taming the Star Runner
Taming the Star Runner 3.71 avg rating — 4,613 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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It Came from Beneath the Bed! (Tales from the House of Bunnicula, #1)
It Came from Beneath the Bed! (Tales from the House of Bunnicula, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 831 ratings
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Writing Down the Dragon: and Other Essays on the Tolkien Method and the Craft of Fantasy
Writing Down the Dragon: and Other Essays on the Tolkien Method and the Craft of Fantasy
by: Tom Simon
4.43 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Story That Cannot Be Told
The Story That Cannot Be Told 4.24 avg rating — 1,163 ratings
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Write Like the Masters: Emulating the Best of Hemingway, Faulkner, Salinger, and Others
Write Like the Masters: Emulating the Best of Hemingway, Faulkner, Salinger, and Others 4.11 avg rating — 161 ratings
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When I Am Happiest
When I Am Happiest 3.97 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Stolen Children
Stolen Children 4.22 avg rating — 7,931 ratings
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Studies in Words
Studies in Words 4.20 avg rating — 490 ratings
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A Year in the Life of a Total and Complete Genius (Arthur Bean #1)
A Year in the Life of a Total and Complete Genius (Arthur Bean #1) 3.74 avg rating — 520 ratings
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Escape Velocity
Escape Velocity 3.40 avg rating — 78 ratings
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A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose
A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose 3.90 avg rating — 596 ratings
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Write This Down
Write This Down 3.91 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Heroes
Heroes 3.39 avg rating — 4,593 ratings
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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One 3.48 avg rating — 3,304 ratings
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Twelve Minutes to Midnight
Twelve Minutes to Midnight 3.53 avg rating — 1,094 ratings
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Fade
Fade 3.79 avg rating — 2,856 ratings
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When Huai Flowers Bloom: Stories of the Cultural Revolution
When Huai Flowers Bloom: Stories of the Cultural Revolution 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire (Cilla Lee-Jenkins, 1)
Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire (Cilla Lee-Jenkins, 1)
by: Susan Tan
4.29 avg rating — 849 ratings
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands 3.69 avg rating — 4,269 ratings
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The Story Seeker (The Story Collector #2)
The Story Seeker (The Story Collector #2) 3.98 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose 4.27 avg rating — 3,843 ratings
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Ava and Pip (Ava and Pip, #1)
Ava and Pip (Ava and Pip, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 944 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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Sincerely, Harriet
Sincerely, Harriet 3.46 avg rating — 1,208 ratings
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Writing the Breakout Novel: Insider Advice for Taking Your Fiction to the Next Level
Writing the Breakout Novel: Insider Advice for Taking Your Fiction to the Next Level 4.08 avg rating — 4,062 ratings
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Share Your Smile: Raina's Guide to Telling Your Own Story
Share Your Smile: Raina's Guide to Telling Your Own Story 4.38 avg rating — 2,294 ratings
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No Plot? No Problem!
No Plot? No Problem! 3.83 avg rating — 7,293 ratings
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Lila and Ecco's Do-It-Yourself Comics Club
Lila and Ecco's Do-It-Yourself Comics Club 3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings
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My Worst Book Ever
My Worst Book Ever 3.66 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Buk Buk Buk Festival
The Buk Buk Buk Festival 3.22 avg rating — 112 ratings
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How This Book Was Made
How This Book Was Made 4.04 avg rating — 1,517 ratings
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Arthur Writes a Story (Arthur Adventure Series)
Arthur Writes a Story (Arthur Adventure Series) 4.16 avg rating — 3,438 ratings
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