Start with high-confidence fiction writing books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition
Thomas C Foster
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
You Should Really Write a Book
Regina Brooks
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
Page One to Done
Jessica Brody
The Well-spoken Thesaurus
Tom Heehler
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Lex Williford, Michael Martone
The Associated Press Stylebook
The Associated Press, Associated Press
Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction
Gotham Writers' Workshop, Alexander Steele
Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction
Orson Scott Card, Philip Athans
The Writer's Guide to Weapons
Benjamin Sobieck, David Morrell
Shotgunning
Bob Brister
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Ursula K. Le Guin, David Naimon
Comma Sense
Ellen Feld
The Notebook
Roland Allen
The Art of Public Speaking
Dale Carnegie
Meander, Spiral, Explode
Jane Alison
On Writing
Stephen King
Good Writing
Neal Allen, Anne Lamott
