Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

Jessica Brody

Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

Matthew Salesses

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print

Renni Browne

The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

Vivian Gornick

The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

Noah Lukeman

The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

Donald Maass

How Fiction Works

James Wood

The Art of Fiction

David Lodge

Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Robert McKee

The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

John Truby

The Art of Dramatic Writing

Lajos Egri

A Poetry Handbook

Mary Oliver

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms

Mark Strand

Aspects of the Novel

E.M. Forster

Making Shapely Fiction

Jerome Stern

The Elements of Style

William Strunk Jr.

The Art of Rhetoric

Aristotle Aristotle

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Robert A. Caro

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Francine Prose

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)

Lisa Cron

Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

Ursula K. Le Guin

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

George Saunders