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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 329,811 ratings — published 2000
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 115,915 ratings — published 1994
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 88,595 ratings — published 1918
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 18,120 ratings — published 1997
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 14,846 ratings — published 2018
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression (Writers Helping Writers, #1)
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avg rating 4.53 — 6,470 ratings — published 2012
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 22,063 ratings — published 1973
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 31,842 ratings — published 1976
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,505 ratings — published 2007
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
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avg rating 4.18 — 6,912 ratings — published 2016
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,512 ratings — published 1995
Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,818 ratings — published 2016
Forensics: A Guide for Writers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 375 ratings — published 2008
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 46,519 ratings — published 1949
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 475,713 ratings — published 1997
Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,961 ratings — published 2007
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 6,413 ratings — published 1984
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 54,893 ratings — published 1988
Yol (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,097,858 ratings — published 2006
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 439,359 ratings — published 1959
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 6,742 ratings — published 1998
Dracula (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,566,783 ratings — published 1897
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,313,668 ratings — published 1847
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,298 ratings — published 1993
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 6,027 ratings — published 2004
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 26,071 ratings — published 2012
20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 2,564 ratings — published 1993
Poetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 31,245 ratings — published -335
Characters & Viewpoint (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 4,744 ratings — published 1988
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 5,830 ratings — published 1993
Life in a Medieval Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,467 ratings — published 1974
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 12,213 ratings — published 2006
The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 3,697 ratings — published 2000
The Sociopath Next Door (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 39,463 ratings — published 2005
Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 4,647 ratings — published 2020
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 248,041 ratings — published 1999
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.53 — 27,850 ratings — published 2021
Murder and Mayhem: A Doctor Answers Medical and Forensic Questions for Mystery Writers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 163 ratings — published 2003
Beloved (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 519,072 ratings — published 1987
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 357,591 ratings — published 2015
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 128,081 ratings — published 2002
Stein on Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 4,882 ratings — published 1995
Character Reactions from Head to Toe (Indie Author Resources, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 553 ratings — published
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 7,227 ratings — published 2020
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 402,927 ratings — published 1937
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 126,530 ratings — published 2015
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 285,736 ratings — published 1929
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 107,057 ratings — published 2003
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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avg rating 4.36 — 22,081 ratings — published 2014
Show, Don't Tell: How to write vivid descriptions, handle backstory, and describe your characters’ emotions (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,424 ratings — published