What to Read After The Seven Basic Plots
Readers who loved The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Seven Basic Plots 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 The Seven Basic Plots
How Not to Write a Novel
How fiction works
The writing book
Wired for story
Booklife
Twenty Master Plots and How to Build Them
Writing for Emotional Impact
Write Away
The Penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary theory
The writer's journey
Aspects of the Novel
Story
Creating short fiction
Reading Like a Writer
Into the Woods
Plot & structure
The Golden Bough
Mockingbird
Story engineering
Creative Writing Coursebook
Hooked
Myths to live by
How to write a damn good novel
In the Country of Men