Books we Recommend

GENERAL

• On writing by Stephen King
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• Writing the Breakout Novel: Insider Advice for Taking Your Fiction to the Next Level, by Donald Maass 
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• Writing Creative Nonfiction, edited by Carolyn Forché and Philip Gerard
• Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande

MEMOIR WRITING

• Your Life as Story by Tristine Rainer
• Writing the Memoir by Judith Barrington
• Writing Family Histories & Memoirs by Kirk Polking

MEMOIRS

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt