Recs if you like Save the Cat! Writes a Novel...

For anyone who has ever thought, "I want to write a book!" This list gathers craft and creativity-focused guides to help you build your skills, refine your process, and keep your imagination alive!

Books of craft, technique, theory, and writing exercises

This is a list of books representing every pokemon in HeartGold and SoulSilver (So Johto+Kanto regions). For my sanity, this is one book per evo line. The list with match-ups is in the comments✊🏻💚

books on books, writing, words, etc. fiction and non-fiction included

Nonfiction books on how to write -in all different genres- well. (Not so much about publishing, just writing for the joy of creating).

A list of books for aspiring authors 📖📚

Craft books that have been recommended to me or that I've found and enjoyed!

Are you trying to write 50,000 words of a novel in November? Previously known as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) which has been disbanded, this is a yearly challenge to get though creative brains going! Here are some writing craft books to help you out.

Books on how to write, for writers and craft nerds. Going beyond your typical Save the Cat. Selected by a developmental editor in the making :)

Because what's better than procrastinating writing by reading what other people have written about writing??

craft books or essays on (creative) writing, but I only add books that I have read myself and found to be helpful (ongoing list)

In the comments is a “Read x if you seek y” guide for all added books, and also the books I chose not to add (and why they might still be worth your time, just not mine)

Just getting back into reading and feeling a bit overwhelmed at all the options? These were my go to recommendations for people while I was a longtime bookseller! I've tried to touch on most genres in this master list so you have a good selection, but I definitely could have missed a few since there are so many.

Books to help with editing and storytelling. These are all books I read in my coursework as an editing and publishing student.

Books on writing! From poetry to prose, from literary to genre, a collection of writing reference books that give you writing rules and then teach you how to break them. Also includes writing theory!

Books on the craft of writing.

I really personally need this list.

Once, I read a highly acclaimed storytelling book that unsettlingly presented pitching your ideas to strangers in a café as something you absolutely should make a habit of. Yes, the book was written by a white cisgender man. Furthermore, the most recent example of media discussed was a 2002 movie.

So, for the 2026 girlies, here you have storytelling and creative writing books written (or revised) by women AND after 2015. No snooping on strangers, no boobily breasting. I promise✨

Books on writing - stop procrastinating, and make magic happen ✨

The books that helped me understand the writing craft, the writing life, what to expect, and the business side of writing.