What to Read After How Fiction Works
Readers who loved How Fiction Works by James Wood keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where How Fiction Works 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 How Fiction Works
Reading Like a Writer
Aspects of the Novel
The Art of Subtext
Writing Fiction
The Art of Fiction
How to Read and Why
The Seven Basic Plots
Classics for Pleasure
Making Shapely Fiction
Maps and Legends
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
The Writing of Fiction
Negotiating with the Dead
On Writers and Writing
The Art of Fiction
Netherland
Leaving the Atocha Station
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Jesus' son
Burning Down the House
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Birds of America
Pnin
How to Be Alone