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Narrative Writing Books
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Enemy Pie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,694 ratings — published 2000
Owl Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 44,445 ratings — published 1987
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,114 ratings — published 2014
Roller Coaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,101 ratings — published 2003
Fireflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,181 ratings — published 1985
Ralph Tells a Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,282 ratings — published 2012
The Best American Essays 2012 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.90 — 881 ratings — published 2012
Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,371 ratings — published 2014
Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.99 — 385,395 ratings — published 2023
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 690,786 ratings — published 2023
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,077 ratings — published 2022
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,636 ratings — published 2021
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.66 — 104,547 ratings — published 2008
Devil House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.20 — 15,849 ratings — published 2022
An Abundance of Katherines (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.51 — 546,647 ratings — published 2006
Look Me in the Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.92 — 69,276 ratings — published 2007
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,724,529 ratings — published 2005
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,990 ratings — published 2024
Leslie F*cking Jones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,507 ratings — published 2023
Blankets (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 124,020 ratings — published 2003
Brown Boy: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.99 — 452 ratings — published 2023
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 451 ratings — published 2019
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.60 — 11,488 ratings — published 2023
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.19 — 32,534 ratings — published 2009
Confessions of Nairobi Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 711 ratings — published 2023
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.53 — 116,930 ratings — published 2023
Dream in Color: How the Sánchez Sisters Are Making History in Congress (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.55 — 22 ratings — published 2008
365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,391 ratings — published 2010
The Sentences That Create Us (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.61 — 51 ratings — published
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 32,091 ratings — published 2009
Living and Dying in Brick City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,220 ratings — published 2013
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,208 ratings — published 2016
The Road to Character (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.65 — 26,006 ratings — published 2015
Writing Your Story's Theme: The Writer's Guide to Plotting Stories That Matter (Helping Writers Become Authors Book 11)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 389 ratings — published 2020
The Secrets of Character: Writing a Hero Anyone Will Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 255 ratings — published 2022
The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,854 ratings — published 2016
Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,580 ratings — published 2016
Show, Don't Tell: How to write vivid descriptions, handle backstory, and describe your characters’ emotions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,313 ratings — published
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,218 ratings — published 2016
Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,429 ratings — published 2013
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,040 ratings — published 1993
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.50 — 13,014 ratings — published 2018
In the Sea There are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,405 ratings — published 2010
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.88 — 93,382 ratings — published 2011
Best American Magazine Writing 2013 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 116 ratings — published 2013
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,879 ratings — published 2010
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,892 ratings — published 2023
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.97 — 705,145 ratings — published 1989
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 851,078 ratings — published 2008
Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 390 ratings — published 2012
“Lan, through her stories, was also traveling in a spiral. As I listened, there would be moments when the story would change-- not much, just a minuscule detail, the time of day, the color of someone's shirt, two air raids instead of three, an AK-47 instead of a 9mm, the daughter laughing, not crying. Shifts in narrative would occur-- the past never a fixed and dormant landscape but one that is re-seen. Whether we want to or not, we are traveling in a spiral, we are creating something new from what is gone.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“This narrative scroll is my story. It represents a peep show into a self-prescribed, ceremonial quest to stare myself down, mutilate myself, slice myself into minuscule pieces, exam and innervate my paralytic soul. Writing this manuscript documenting disenchantment with my selfhood’s unsatisfactory interactions with significant life defining experiences constitutes a calculated surgical disembodiment of my former egoistical self. The act of writing my life story serves as a spiritual dismemberment undertaken to reconfigure and reconstitute my essential being. Perhaps this anatomical deconstruction of a delusional self represents a talisman-like step in attempted self-healing. Alternatively, perhaps this megalomaniac manuscript, which amplifies my psychopathic condition characterized by narcissistic fantasies of power and greatness, and chorusing ring of self-doubt, is nothing more than the sound and fury of an idiot’s paranoid rant. Is my self-induced schizophrenia running rampant, writing page after page of pure drivel, descending me deeper into a private hell? Perchance writing this oscillating scroll is a well-intended personal attempt to escape my mortality, an effort to cheat death by entering into the web of eternity, immerse my voice into the collective consciousness of humankind by creating an immortality vessel. Conversely, mayhap the illogical rant that demarks this scroll proves that the devil does take the hindmost.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
