This Year You Write Your Novel My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing Essays One Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Exercises in Style
Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction Ten Things about Writing: Build Your Story, One Word at a Time The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom The Heroine with 1001 Faces Suppose a Sentence
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something.: A Writers Guide How to Write Stunning Sentences Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot
Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles Several Short Sentences about Writing Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (Revised) The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar's Greatest Films

Go-to Writing Craft Books

By Jenny Bhatt

By Jenny Bhatt

Go-to Writing Craft Books

These are books I recommend in my writing workshops. Ongoing teaching schedule is here.

Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to...

Jeff VanderMeer

$27.50
$25.58
Several Short Sentences about Writing

Several Short Sentences about Writing

Verlyn Klinkenborg

$18.00
$16.74
This Year You Write Your Novel

This Year You Write Your Novel

Walter Mosley

$15.99
$14.87
Exercises in Style

Exercises in Style

Raymond Queneau

$16.95
$15.76
How to Write Stunning Sentences

How to Write Stunning Sentences

Nina Schuyler

$19.95
Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

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

Matt Bell

$15.95
$14.83
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a...

George Saunders

$18.99
$17.66
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and...

Matthew Salesses

$16.95
$15.76
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom

The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the...

Felicia Rose Chavez

$24.95
$23.20
Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something.: A Writers Guide

Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something.: A Writers...

Susan Griffin

$16.95
$15.76
It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences

It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences:...

June Casagrande

$14.00
$13.02
Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction

Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction

Brian Dillon

$18.95
$17.62
Suppose a Sentence

Suppose a Sentence

Brian Dillon

$17.95
$16.69
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing...

Ursula K. Le Guin

$15.99
$14.87
Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar's Greatest Films

Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on...

Dean Movshovitz

$18.34
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and...

Francine Prose

$17.99
$16.73
Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles

Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and...

Lydia Davis

$35.00
$32.55
The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase

The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase

Mark Forsyth

$17.00
$15.81
Ten Things about Writing: Build Your Story, One Word at a Time

Ten Things about Writing: Build Your Story, One Word at a Time

Joanne Harris

$16.95
$15.76
My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

Carl Phillips

$20.00
$18.60
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

Peter Brooks

$17.95
$16.69
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (Revised)

Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative...

Peter Brooks

$42.00
Essays One

Essays One

Lydia Davis

$30.00
$27.90
Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature

Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature

Charles Baxter

$17.00
$15.81
The Heroine with 1001 Faces

The Heroine with 1001 Faces

Maria Tatar

$30.00
$27.90