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Keeping Your Personal Journal
by George F. Simons
71 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by John McWhorter
342 members
26 reviews
4
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
by Kory Stamper
1,264 members
72 reviews
4.1
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This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing
by Jacqueline Winspear
326 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
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Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul
by Najwa Zebian
78 members
2 reviews
½ 2.7
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What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
by Alice McDermott
63 members
4 reviews
4.1
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What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life
by Mark Doty
101 members
2 reviews
3.9
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The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
by Charles Johnson
167 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Whale: A Love Story: A Novel
by Mark Beauregard
175 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary
by John Simpson
283 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
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The World in a Phrase : A Brief History of the Aphorism
by James Geary
264 members
8 reviews
4.1
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Things I Don't Want to Know
by Deborah Levy
556 members
22 reviews
3.9
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The Tiny Journalist
by Naomi Shihab Nye
70 members
1 review
½ 4.4
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Hunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quartermain
by H. Rider Haggard
74 members
1 review
3.9
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The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus
by Allan Gurganus
36 members
½ 4.4
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The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
by Lewis Raven Wallace
54 members
1 review
3.8
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The Semantics of Metaphor
by Professor Samuel R. Levin
4 members
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These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
by Martha Ackmann
127 members
6 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing
by Lore Segal
34 members
2 reviews
4.2
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The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life
by Dinty W. Moore
119 members
1 review
4.2
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The Complete Works of Pat Parker (Sapphic Classics)
by Pat Parker
47 members
1 review
½ 4.7
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
by Pip Williams
4,245 members
158 reviews
4
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Start Where You Are: A Journal for Self-Exploration
by Meera Lee Patel
263 members
½ 4.5
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Small Fry: A Memoir
by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
740 members
24 reviews
½ 3.7
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Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living
by Manjula Martin
168 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
by J. P. Romney
289 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
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Speaking in Tongues: Curious Expressions from Around the World
by Ella Frances Sanders
14 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art
by Mark Cirino
11 members
5
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Monsters in Appalachia: Stories
by Sheryl Monks
32 members
3
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Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser
by Roy Peter Clark
142 members
3 reviews
3.8
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Never Say You Can't Survive
by Charlie Jane Anders
236 members
7 reviews
½ 4.3
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Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother
by Roald Dahl
125 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
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Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage
by Oliver Kamm
95 members
5 reviews
3.8
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Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth
by Benjamin Taylor
31 members
1 review
½ 4.3
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A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
by Emmy J. Favilla
120 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
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Miss Emily
by Nuala O'Connor
145 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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Making Comics
by Lynda Barry
311 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
by Colum McCann
229 members
12 reviews
3.9
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Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford: The Biography
by Laura Thompson
152 members
7 reviews
3.8
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Lights All Night Long
by Lydia Fitzpatrick
236 members
7 reviews
3.9
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Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language
by Nicola Gardini
241 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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Leonard Cohen: On a Wire
by Philippe Girard
66 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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Lady Byron and Her Daughters
by Julia Markus
60 members
3 reviews
3.8
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Georges Perec: A Life in Words
by David Bellos
193 members
3 reviews
4
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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
by Mary Norris
357 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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Hyphen
by Pardis Mahdavi
22 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
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Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
by Benjamin Dreyer
1,574 members
51 reviews
4.2
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Emily's House
by Amy Belding Brown
101 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different
by Chuck Palahniuk
368 members
11 reviews
½ 4.3
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Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
by Matthew Salesses
290 members
7 reviews
4.1
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A Freudian Slip is When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother
by Gary Blake
19 members
1 review
3
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Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected: A Biography
by Matthew Dennison
31 members
1 review
3.8
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Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
by Nick Hornby
187 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
by Sarah Hart
224 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
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Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit That Lasts
by Bec Evans
36 members
½ 3.6
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The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
by Thomas Harding
37 members
3
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The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry
by Stacey D'Erasmo
47 members
1 review
2.8
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The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco
by Gary Kamiya
19 members
1 review
3.9
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
by Brian Jay Jones
241 members
9 reviews
4
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Passing
by Nella Larsen
3,541 members
133 reviews
3.8
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Quicksand and Passing
by Nella Larsen
1,035 members
6 reviews
3.8
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
by Colm Tóibín
226 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
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Edith Wharton Reader
by Edith Wharton
39 members
½ 4.7
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The Illustrated Book of Sayings: Curious Expressions from Around the World
by Ella Frances Sanders
67 members
6 reviews
4.2
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Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
by Maggie Smith
114 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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Writing Creativity and Soul
by Sue Monk Kidd
82 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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Write for Life
by Julia Cameron
115 members
4 reviews
3.8
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Writing an Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers
by Alex Temblador
33 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
11,500 members
261 reviews
4.1
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