What to Read After The Making of a Story
Readers who loved The Making of a Story by Alice LaPlante keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Making of a 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 The Making of a Story
The Art of Subtext
Writing Fiction
Lie That Tells a Truth
The fire in fiction
The Sense of Style
Making shapely fiction
Naming the world
Creating short fiction
Page after page
Art of X-Ray Reading
Living by Fiction
Writing fiction
The art of character
Ordinary Genius
Writer's Guide to Character Traits
How fiction works
The dead fish museum
When My Brother Was an Aztec
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
The kick-ass writer
Selected stories
The writer's journey
Story
The art of fiction