What to Read After Narrative Design
Readers who loved Narrative Design by Madison Smartt Bell keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Narrative Design 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 Narrative Design
The Art of Subtext
Writing Fiction
Burning Down the House
The art of fiction
Mystery and manners: occasional prose
On moral fiction
Situation and the Story
Naming the world
On Writers and Writing
The Book of Prefaces
Plotting and writing suspense fiction
On becoming a novelist
Negotiating with the dead
Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular
On writing short stories
To show and to tell
The Eleventh Draft
The practice of writing
The Writer's chapbook
Living by Fiction
Revision
Writing dialogue
Reading Like a Writer
Birds of America