What to Read After Story
Readers who loved Story by Robert McKee keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Story 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 Story
The writer's journey
Save the cat!
Screenplay
Story engineering
The screenwriter's bible
Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies
Hooked
Techniques of the Selling Writer
Making a good script great
The hero with a thousand faces
Writing the Breakout Novel
Three Uses of the Knife
The hollywood standard
Self-editing for fiction writers
Plot & structure
The art of fiction
Stein on Writing
Writing Down the Bones
Characters and viewpoint
Making movies
On directing film
Adventures in the screen trade
Twenty Master Plots and How to Build Them
Zen in the art of writing