Every writer has that stage in their career where they just write a book about writing books and sometimes we can learn from them and sometimes they’re really fun.
Suggestions welcome 🤗
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last updated May, 2026
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders
I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World
James Geary
Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir
Helena de Bres
Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf
Conversations with Toni Morrison (Literary Conversations Series)
Danille K. Taylor-Guthrie
These Precious Days: Essays
Ann Patchett
Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
Frank McCourt
Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life
Sofia Samatar
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Studs Terkel
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
Abigail Thomas
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
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