The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

Charles Baxter

1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round

Jami Attenberg

Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction: How to Create Out-of-This-World Novels and Short Stories

Orson Scott Card

Making Shapely Fiction

Jerome Stern

Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life

Bonnie Friedman

On Moral Fiction

John Gardner

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Dani Shapiro

A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction

Elizabeth McCracken

Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life

Maggie Smith

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

Jessica Brody

Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations

Robert Bly

Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

Roy Peter Clark

Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go

Les Edgerton

Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry

Dana Gioia

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (FSG Classics)

Flannery O'Connor

Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

John Gardner

Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

Benjamin Dreyer

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

How To Write a Page Turner: Craft a Story Your Readers Can't Put Down

Jordan Rosenfeld

The Elements of Style

William Strunk Jr.

Writers on Writing: A Bread Loaf Anthology

Robert Pack

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

By Cunning & Craft: Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers

Peter Selgin

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

Matt Bell

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King

Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

Ray Bradbury

Putting the Fact in Fantasy: Expert Advice to Bring Authenticity to Your Fantasy Writing

Dan Koboldt

Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction

Benjamin Percy