One book, two months. Books by writers on writing.

Book club reading for 2024. Please email to join in and to receive the check-in invitations.

A short questionnaire will be sent out before each check-in for you to review the book.

Jan/Feb
‘Wild Mind’ by Natalie Goldberg
Check-in 1st March 7-8pm, UK time via Zoom

March/April 
‘A Swim in a Pond in the Rain’ by George Saunders 
Check-in 3rd May 7-8pm, UK time via Zoom

May/June
‘The Situation and the Story’ by Vivian Gornick 
Check-in 5th July 7-8pm, UK time via Zoom

July/Aug
‘Novelist as Vocation’ by Haruki Murakami 
Check-in 6th September 7-8pm, UK time via Zoom

Sept/Oct
‘On Writers and Writing’ by Margaret Atwood 
Check-in 1st Nov 7-8pm, UK time via Zoom

Nov/Dec
‘Into the Woods’ by John Yorke
Check-in 3rd Jan 2025 7-8pm, UK time via Zoom

 

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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