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

Matt Bell

The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction

Ann Charters

Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

Chuck Palahniuk

Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction

Benjamin Percy

A Horse at Night: On Writing

Amina Cain

The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

Stephen Fry

Things I Don't Want to Know

Deborah Levy

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

George Saunders

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

Ray Bradbury

The Elements of Style

William Strunk Jr.

Why I Write

George Orwell

On Writing

Charles Bukowski

Novelist as a Vocation

Haruki Murakami

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

Jessica Brody

Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (8th Edition)

Janet Burroway

The Writing Life

Annie Dillard

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke