Books on Writing

Here is a list of favorite books on writing that we can edit & expand, etc. Many of these are ones we talked about (or brought for show-and-tell...) Instead of including blurbs about each one, I just linked the titles to Amazon, where you can search the reviews & customer comments if you'd like. Add comments with ones I missed!

Bird by Bird: Some instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within and Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life both by Natalie Goldberg

On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction and Writing to Learn both by William Zinsser

The Weekend Novelist by Robert J. Ray and Bret Norris

On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner

If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland

Writing Past Dark by Bonnie Friedman

Sleeping With One Eye Open: Women Writers on the Art of Survival edited by Marilyn Kallet and Judith Ortiz Coffer

Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry by Thomas Arp & Greg Johnson

Writing Fiction: A Guide of Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway

Creating Poetry by John Drury

Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity, 3rd edition/expanded by Ray Bradbury

The Writer's Idea Workshop by Jack Heffron

The Writer's Art by James J. Kilpatrick

Fiction Writer's Workshop by Josip Novakovich

The Observation Deck by Naomi Epel

How to Get Happily Published by Judith Appelbaum

The Eye of the Story by Eudora Welty