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Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers

More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Writing Matters: A Handbook for Writing and Research

The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography

The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

Grammar 101: From Split Infinitives to Dangling Participles, an Essential Guide to Understanding Grammar

Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction

Book of Awesome Women Writers

The Power of Point of View: Make Your Story Come to Life

Impersonation

Generation F: The Girls Write Now 2018 Anthology

My Life as a Villainess

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way

She Found It at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire and Cinema

A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

Rise Speak Change: The 2017 Girls Write Now Anthology

Sceneclopedia: Horror: Every Scene of 25 Horror Films

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing

Too Much and Not the Mood

The Woman in the Story: Writing Memorable Female Characters

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

The Faraway Nearby

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)

Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany

Country Girl: A Memoir

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

Violation: Collected Essays by Sallie Tisdale

300 Arguments

Actually, the Comma Goes Here: A Practical Guide to Punctuation

Drifts

If It’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling

Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir

The Art and Craft of Storytelling: A Comprehensive Guide to Classic Writing Techniques

Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author’s Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development

South and West: From a Notebook

What You Become in Flight

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers

The Heart of the Film: Writing Love Stories in Screenplays

The Clothing of Books

On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers

Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel

How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

Writing In An Age Of Silence

Free Woman: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

Write On, Sisters!: Voice, Courage, and Claiming Your Place at the Table

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Writing to Be Understood: What Works and Why

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism

Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the West

The Writer’s Lexicon: Descriptions, Overused Words, and Taboos

Rules for Writers

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide: A Complete Step-By-Step Creative Workbook to Jump-Start Modern Calligraphy Skills

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Just the Funny Parts: … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys’ Club

Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland

Conversations with Edwidge Danticat

Write. Get Paid. Repeat.: The Guide to Being a Successful Freelance Writer

Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side

Writers & Lovers

Creativity Rules: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World

True Crimes: A Family Album

Upstream: Selected Essays

Little Labors

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag

A House of My Own: Stories from My Life

Words That Change Minds: The 14 Patterns for Mastering the Language of Influence

In the Land of Men: A Memoir

Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia

Burn the Place: A Memoir

Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

The Hero Is You: Sharpen Your Focus, Conquer Your Demons, and Become the Writer You Were Born to Be

Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic

The Storytelling Non-Profit: A practical guide to telling stories that raise money and awareness

How Your Story Sets You Free

Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing

Kill Reply All: A Modern Guide to Online Etiquette, from Social Media to Work to Love

Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book

The Best American Food Writing 2019

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

I Miss You When I Blink

Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected

Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire

Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How To Read

Screen Tests

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing

Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century

Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity

Things I Don’t Want to Know: On Writing

Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television

Working It Out: 23 Women Writers, Artists, Scientists, and Scholars Talk about Their Lives and Work

Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics

The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

The Boys of My Youth

Truth & Beauty

Incidental Inventions

Business Writing Today: A Practical Guide

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

The Best American Essays: Editor, Edwidge Danticat – 2011

The Best American Essays: Editor, Ariel Levy – 2015

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write about Their Work on Women

100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word

Schaum’s Quick Guide to Writing Great Short Stories

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

Your Story Is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice

Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism

Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Save Me the Plums

Heroines

Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre

Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction’s Most Beloved Heroines

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance

Devotion

Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir

The Wrong Way to Save Your Life

In Other Words

Cool, Calm & Contentious

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Your Art Will Save Your Life

Feel Free

Content Everywhere: Strategy and Structure for Future-Ready Content

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained

Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life

Letters Home by Sylvia Plath: Correspondence 1950-1963

My Salinger Year

Just As I Thought

Let It Bleed: How to Write a Rockin’ Memoir

Your Story: How to Write It So Others Will Want to Read It

The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting

A Room of One’s Own

The Geek Feminist Revolution