What to Read After Reading Like a Writer
Readers who loved Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Reading Like a Writer 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 Reading Like a Writer
The art of fiction
Bird by Bird
How fiction works
How to read literature like a professor
Stein on Writing
Becoming a writer
The forest for the trees
Writing Fiction
Spunk & bite
Writing Down the Bones
The writing life
Negotiating with the dead
Naming the world
On Writers and Writing
It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences
Fiction Writer's Workshop
The Art of Subtext
The writer's idea book
Zen in the art of writing
Self-editing for fiction writers
The writer's journey
Aspects of the Novel
On writing well
Plot & structure