What to Read After About Writing
Readers who loved About Writing by Samuel R. Delany keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where About Writing 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 About Writing
Essays
The High Place
Ernest Hemingway on Writing
The Wave in the Mind
Simple & Direct
Why I Write
Wizardry and Wild Romance
The Language of the Night
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Creating Short Fiction
Booklife
Conversations with James Baldwin
Ernest Hemingway on writing
Off the Main Sequence
Techniques of the Selling Writer
Creative Writing Coursebook
Hermit in Paris
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
New York 2140
The Street of Crocodiles
Borne
Lilith's Brood
Burning Chrome
Closed and Common Orbit