Recs if you like The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers...

Think of this as your reading glow up! These books will teach you to slow down, look closer, and find what authors are hiding underneath a great sentence. The goal isn't to ace an exam - it's to get more out of every book you read, feel more confident in the forums or at book club, and learn to trust your instincts as a reader. One rule: Start with the book that excites you the most, not the one that sounds the most impressive. Your future self, thriving in the forums, will thank you!!

I never had the opportunity to take a dedicated literature class, so I'm building my own personal curriculums! The technical goal of this list is to help me learn how to analyze prose style at the sentence level - diction, syntax, figuration, narrative distance, etc. The more practical goal of this is to help me understand the what an author is doing and have the language to properly describe it.

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!