What to Read After Hooked
Readers who loved Hooked by Les Edgerton keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Hooked is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Hooked
Self-editing for fiction writers
Writing the Breakout Novel
Plot & structure
Story engineering
Save the cat!
Characters and viewpoint
The fire in fiction
Characters, emotion & viewpoint
Wired for story
Outlining your novel
Story
Stein on Writing
How to write a damn good novel
Beginnings, middles, and ends
Techniques of the Selling Writer
How Not to Write a Novel
The forest for the trees
Dialogue
Twenty Master Plots and How to Build Them
It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences
Goal, Motivation and Conflict
The writer's guide to character traits
Getting the words right
The Ode Less Travelled CD