What to Read After Making Shapely Fiction
Readers who loved Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Making Shapely Fiction 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 Making Shapely Fiction
Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular
The Art of Fiction
What if?
Writing Fiction
Burning Down the House
Fiction Writer's Workshop
The Art of Subtext
Writing with Power
The Making of a Story
Steering the Craft
Reading Like a Writer
How Fiction Works
Aspects of the Novel
I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like
Ernest Hemingway on Writing
Lie That Tells a Truth
Naming the World
On Becoming a Novelist
Writing to Change the World
A Writer's Time
This Year You Write Your Novel
Imaginative Writing
Maps of the Imagination
Several Short Sentences About Writing