Book List
’Wild Mind’ Natalie Goldberg (2024)
’A Swim in a Pond in the Rain’ George Saunders (2024)
’The Situation and the Story’ Vivian Gornick (2024)
’The Faith of the Writer’ Joyce Carol Oates
’On Writing’ Stephen King (2025)
’Bird by Bird’ Anne Lamott (2025)
’On Writers and Writing’ Margaret Atwood (2024)
’Negotiating with the Dead; a writer on writing’ Margaret Atwood
’How Proust can change your life’ Alain De Botton
’Imaginative Writing: the elements of craft’ Janet Burroway
’Novelist as Vocation’ Haruki Murakami (2024)
’Why I write’ George Orwell
’TheWriting Life’ Annie Dillard
’Zen in the Art of writing’ Ray Bradbury
’The Elements of Style’ William Strunk
‘Plotting and writing suspense fiction’ Patricia Highsmith
‘On Writing’ Charles Bukowski
‘On Writing (and Writers) CS Lewis
19. ‘The Way of the Fearless Writer’ Beth Kempton (2025)
‘Always take Notes’ Simon Akam (2025)
‘Write for Life’ Julia Cameron (2025)
‘A Horse at Night: on writing’ Amina Cain (2025)
‘Ernest Hemingway on Writing’ Ernest Hemingway (2025)
‘In the Margins’ Elena Ferrante
‘Morphologies’ Ali Smith
‘On Writing’ A.L. Kennedy
‘Write your first sentence’ Joe Moran
‘Writing Past dark’ Bonnie Friedman
‘Steering the Craft’ Ursula K. Le Guin
‘Hooked’ Les Edgerton
‘Wonderbook’ Jeff VanderMeer (2025)
‘On writing and world building’ Timothy Hickson
‘One Writers Beginnings’ Eudora Welty
‘Ron Carlson writes a story’ Ron Carlson
‘On Writing Well’ William Zinsser
‘Into the Woods’ John Yorke (2024)
‘Write it all down’ Cathy Rentzenbrink
‘Henry Miller on Writing’ Henry Miller
’Thomas Moore on writing’ Thomas Moore
‘On writing and failure’ Stephen Marche
’Pity the Reader’ Suzanne McConnell
Series:
‘Devotion: why I write 1’ Patti Smith
‘Inadvertent: why I write 2’ Karl Ove Knausgaard
‘For Now: why I write 3’ Eileen Myles
Questionnaire
Name of book:
Date finished:
1. How was your overall reading experience?
2. What are your top 3 take-aways?
3. How has this book changed your approach towards your own writing or reading?
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