Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury — writing, creativity, inspiration, craft

Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark — writing, communication, creativity, storytelling, language

Writing Is Designing by Michael J. Metts, Andy Welfle — design, technology, writing, user-experience, ux-writing, content-strategy

Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin — literature, essays, writing, literary-criticism, fantasy, imagination, genre-fiction

The Writer's Chapbook by George Plimpton — writing, creativity, literature, interviews, craft

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield — self-help, creativity, art, writing, motivation, resistance

The Friday Book by John Barth • 1984 — literature, writing, essays, postmodernism, narrative, craft

The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem — writing, creativity, influence, culture, art, essays, literary criticism

The Art of Fiction by David Lodge — literature, writing, craft, fiction, narrative

Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike — memoir, autobiography, literature, writing, identity, self-reflection

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami — writing, fiction, creativity, publishing, culture, self-reflection

How To Write Fiction: A Guardian Masterclass by Geoff Dyer, Jill Dawson, Andrew Miller, Rachel Cusk, Meg Rosoff, DBC Pierre, Adam Foulds, Kate Mosse, Mark Billingham, Clare Conville, Francis Bickmore, Roderick Gordon — writing, fiction, creativity, publishing

How Fiction Works by James Wood — fiction, realism, narration, character, language, dialogue, writing, literary criticism, literature