What to Read After Beginnings, middles, and ends
Readers who loved Beginnings, middles, and ends by Nancy Kress keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Beginnings, middles, and ends 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 Beginnings, middles, and ends
Characters and viewpoint
Writing the Breakout Novel
Self-editing for fiction writers
How to write a damn good novel
How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
Twenty Master Plots and How to Build Them
The writer's journey
No Plot? No Problem!
Dialogue
Stein on Writing
The art of fiction
Hooked
Becoming a writer
Creating short fiction
Steering the craft
How Not to Write a Novel
Writing dialogue
Fiction Writer's Workshop
Characters, emotion & viewpoint
Plot & structure
Writing Fiction
Dynamic Characters
The fire in fiction
Story engineering