Writer Education: Books

The following books on writing might help you with your work, or inspire you with your process. Of course, if you have more suggestions, I'd love to have them.

A. Alvarez
The Writer's Voice

James Scott Bell
The Art of War for Writers

Julia Bell and Andrew Motion
The Creative Writing Coursebook

Jack M. Bickham
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes

Lawrence Block
Telling Lies for Fun and Profit

Carol Bly
The Passionate, Accurate Story

Christopher Booker
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

Ray Bradbury
Zen in the Art of Writing

Alastair Brotchie
Surrealist Games

Renni Brown and David King
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers

Janet Burroway et.al
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft

Orson Scott Card
Characters and Viewpoint
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy

Samuel R. Delany
About Writing

Natalie Goldberg
Writing Down the Bones

Gotham Writer's Workshop
The Gotham Writer's Workshop Book

Sue Grafton
Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America

Jacqueline Jackson
Turn not Pale, Beloved Snail

Stephen King
On Writing

Barbara Kipfer
The Flip Dictionary

Damon Knight
Creating Short Fiction

Nancy Kress
Beginnings, Middles, and Ends

Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird

Ursula K. LeGuin
Steering the Craft

Noah Lukeman
The First Five Pages

Donald Maass
The Breakout Novelist
The Fire in Fiction
Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook

Dara Marks
Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational Arc

John McAleer et. al.
Mystery Writing in a Nutshell

Robert McKee
Story

Jessica Page Morrell
Between the Lines

Ken Rand
The 10% Solution

Mike Resnik
I Have this Nifty Idea...Now What Do I Do with It?

Jordan E. Rosenfeld
Making a Scene

Blake Snyder
Save the Cat

Sol Stein
Stein on Writing

J. Michael Straczynski
The Complete Book of Script Writing

Strunk and White
The Elements of Style

Dwight W. Swain
Techniques of the Selling Writer

Ronald Tobias
Twenty Master Plots and How to Build Them

Christopher Vogler
The Writer's Journey

Carolyn Wheat
How to Write Killer Fiction

Joseph M. Williams
Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace