Reading List

These are our favourite books on the craft and business of writing, rewriting and revising.

• The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi
• The Elements of F*cking Style by Baker and Hansen
• The Artful Edit by Susan Bell
• The Careful Writer by Theodore Bernstein
• Save the Cat! Writes A Novel by Jessica Brody
• Story Engineering by Larry Brooks
• Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne & Dave King
• The Canadian Press Stylebook
• The Chicago Manual of Style
• Line by Line by Claire Kehrwald Cook
• Story Genius by Lisa Cron
• The Copyeditor’s Handbook by Amy Einsohn
• The Subversive Copy Editor by Carol Fisher Saller
• Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
• The Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• Writer With a Day Job by Aine Greaney
• The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
• Story by Robert McKee
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress
• The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner
• The Art of Styling Sentences by Longknife & Sullivan
• The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman
• Manuscript Makeover by Elizabeth Lyon
• Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
• “Shut up!” he explained by William Noble
• Fiction Writer’s Workshop by Josip Novakovich
• Word Sorcery by Vanessa Ricci-Thode
• The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
• Tell Me What You See by Caroline Topperman
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
• Damn Fine Story by Chuck Wendig
• The Kick-Ass Writer by Chuck Wendig