The Craft of Writing: Author Recommendations

By Literary Hub

Lit Hub's Craft of Writing newsletter publishes writing advice from leading authors every week. Here are some of the books our authors have recommended for readers who are looking to learn more. Subscribe here.

Aspects of the Novel

E. M. Forster

$14.99 $13.94

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Anne Lamott

$17.00 $15.81

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

John Gardner

$17.00 $15.81

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

$16.00 $14.88

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Leslie Jamison

$16.00 $14.88

The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to ACT

Isaac Butler

$30.00 $27.90

Red Cavalry

Nathalie Babel and Isaac Babel

$14.95 $13.90

Waiting

Ha Jin

$18.00 $16.74

Typical American

Gish Jen

$17.00 $15.81

People of the Book

Geraldine Brooks

$18.00 $16.74

Liars and Saints

Maile Meloy

$17.00 $15.81

Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories (Revised) (Revised)

Joan Silber

$22.95

The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner

Joan Didion

$17.00 $15.81

Cleanness

Garth Greenwell

$26.00 $24.18

Fra Keeler

Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi

$16.00 $14.88

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

Angie Cruz

$27.99 $26.03

The Enigma of Arrival

V. S. Naipaul

$17.00 $15.81

Suite for Barbara Loden

Nathalie Léger

$16.00 $14.88

Six Records of a Floating Life

Shen Fu

$16.00 $14.88

The Trees

Percival Everett

$16.00 $14.88

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

$17.00 $15.81

Arcadia

Lauren Groff

$16.99 $15.80

The Tenth Muse

Catherine Chung

$16.99 $15.80

Recommended by Alice Elliott Dark (Books Where Characters Grow)

Off Keck Road

Mona Simpson

$19.99 $18.59

Recommended by Alice Elliott Dark (Books Where Characters Grow)

The Professor's House

Willa Cather

$16.00 $14.88

Recommended by Alice Elliott Dark (Books Where Characters Grow)