What to Read After Becoming a Writer
Readers who loved Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Becoming a Writer 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 Becoming a Writer
Writing Down the Bones
Zen in the Art of Writing
The Right to Write
The Art of Fiction
Wild Mind
The Writing Life
Reading Like a Writer
On Writing Well
The Artist's Way
Beginnings, Middles, and Ends
What if?
Courage to Write
Steering the Craft
Page After Page
The Writer's Idea Book
If You Want to Write
The Weekend Novelist
On Becoming a Novelist
The Creative Writing MFA Handbook
On Moral Fiction
The Writer's Journey
Writing the Breakout Novel
Plot & Structure
Self-editing for Fiction Writers