One the primary tools for any beginning or veteran writer is a bookshelf of works that help us become and grow as writers. I will begin a list of recommended books here and add as often as I can. This post will be accessible through a "Writer's Bookshelf" link on the right at all times.
Recommended:
The Art of Fiction, John Gardner
On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner
On Writers and Writing, John Gardner
On Moral Fiction, John Gardner
Becoming a Writer, Dorothea Brande
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
On Writing, Stephen King
Liberating Scholarly Writing, Robert Nash
On Writing Well, William Zinsser
Style, Joseph Williams
The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
Making Comics, Scott McCloud
Reading like a Writer, Francine Prose
The Faith of a Writer, Joyce Carol Oates
Negotiating with the Dead, Margaret Atwood
The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera
Writers on Writing, The New York Times
Writers on Writing II, The New York Times
Inventing the Truth, William Zinsser
Where is Strunk & White's Elements of Style? :)
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