What to Read After On Becoming a Novelist
Readers who loved On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where On Becoming a Novelist 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 On Becoming a Novelist
Aspects of the Novel
Steering the Craft
Becoming a Writer
Writing Fiction
Writing the Breakout Novel
What if?
Making Shapely Fiction
Techniques of the Selling Writer
Narrative Design
Burning Down the House
The Art of Fiction
On Moral Fiction
Grendel
Story
Consider the Lobster
On Writing Well
I, Claudius
Labyrinths
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead
The Elements of Style
Survivor
A Moveable Feast
The Illustrated Man
The Portrait of a Lady