What to Read After The writing life
Readers who loved The writing life by Annie Dillard keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The writing life 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 writing life
Writing Down the Bones
Wild mind
Bird by Bird
The right to write
Becoming a writer
On writing well
The forest for the trees
The Art of the Personal Essay
The Artist's Way
The Faith of a Writer
Teaching a Stone to Talk
Inventing the truth
The art of fiction
Zen in the art of writing
Reading Like a Writer
For the time being
The writer's idea book
Writing Fiction
Steering the craft
The art of memoir
Living by Fiction
Gilead
Operating Instructions
Grace (Eventually)