Start with high-confidence fiction writing books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition
Thomas C Foster
How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
The Well-spoken Thesaurus
Tom Heehler
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Lex Williford, Michael Martone
Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction
Orson Scott Card, Philip Athans
The Writer's Guide to Weapons
Benjamin Sobieck, David Morrell
Shotgunning
Bob Brister
The Notebook
Roland Allen
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Ursula K. Le Guin, David Naimon
The Art of Public Speaking
Dale Carnegie
Meander, Spiral, Explode
Jane Alison
On Writing
Stephen King
