Books Every Aspiring Writer Should Read

Discover the essential books every aspiring writer should read to hone their craft. From classic literature to modern guides, this curated list will inspire and improve your writing skills.

aspiring books read writer
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Cover
Book

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

by Raymond Carver

The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, …
View
Attempted cover for Book ID: 0140422153
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0140422153
(Book - Data not in DB)
Attempted cover for Book ID: 0451519299
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0451519299
(Book - Data not in DB)
Attempted cover for Book ID: 0140445331
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0140445331
(Book - Data not in DB)
Tripmaster monkey Cover
Book

Tripmaster monkey

 

No summary available.
View
Solaris Cover
Book

Solaris

by Stanisław Lem

The first of Lem’s novels to be published in americanca and still the best known. A scientist examining the ocean that covers the surface of …
View
Attempted cover for Book ID: 0140444106
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0140444106
(Book - Data not in DB)
Attempted cover for Book ID: 0679420312
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0679420312
(Book - Data not in DB)
Attempted cover for Book ID: 1888363215
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 1888363215
(Book - Data not in DB)
The Complete Stories Cover
Book

The Complete Stories

 

No summary available.
View
Labyrinths Cover
Book

Labyrinths

by Jorge Luis Borges

Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
View
Imaginations Cover
Book

Imaginations

by William Carlos Williams

Written between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in France. These are pivotal and seminal works, books …
View
Attempted cover for Book ID: 014044050X
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 014044050X
(Book - Data not in DB)
Attempted cover for Book ID: 0679601023
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0679601023
(Book - Data not in DB)
Attempted cover for Book ID: 0811200671
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0811200671
(Book - Data not in DB)
Attempted cover for Book ID: 0252006860
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0252006860
(Book - Data not in DB)
Attempted cover for Book ID: 0801818303
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0801818303
(Book - Data not in DB)
Attempted cover for Book ID: 0060927518
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0060927518
(Book - Data not in DB)
Attempted cover for Book ID: 0156806541
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0156806541
(Book - Data not in DB)
Blood Meridian Cover
Book

Blood Meridian

by Cormac McCarthy

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and …
View
Attempted cover for Book ID: 0679601813
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0679601813
(Book - Data not in DB)
Hunger Cover
Book

Hunger

 

No summary available.
View
Attempted cover for Book ID: 007553648X
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 007553648X
(Book - Data not in DB)
The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway Cover
Book

The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway

The complete, authoritative collection of Ernest Hemingway's short fiction, including classic stories like "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and "The Short Happy …
View
And Quiet Flows the Don Cover
Book

And Quiet Flows the Don

by Mikhail Sholokhov

WINNER OF NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 1965 WINNER OF THE STALIN PRIZE, 1941 Mikhail Sholokhov’s groundbreaking epic novel gives a sweeping depiction of Russian life …
View