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Explore 24 books like Great Ideas Why I Write by George Orwell — a handpicked selection united by Writing, Essays, Literary Collections, and Language Arts & Disciplines.

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Artful — Ali Smith

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

Reacher: the Stories Behind the Stories — Lee Child

Reacher: the Stories Behind the Stories

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

The Best American Sports Writing 2015 — Glenn Stout

The Best American Sports Writing 2015

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

The Geek Feminist Revolution Essays — Kameron Hurley

The Geek Feminist Revolution Essays

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain — George Saunders

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

George Saunders

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

How to Write Like a Writer A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice — Thomas C. Foster

How to Write Like a Writer A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice

Thomas C. Foster

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

Novelist as a Vocation — Haruki Murakami

Novelist as a Vocation

Haruki Murakami

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

The Best American Travel Writing 2019 — Alexandra Fuller

The Best American Travel Writing 2019

Alexandra Fuller

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

How Fiction Works — James Wood

How Fiction Works

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

Reading Life A Writer’s Reader — Inge Fink

Reading Life A Writer’s Reader

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

The Artful Dickens The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist — John Mullan

The Artful Dickens The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

On the Art of the Craft A Guidebook to Collaborative Storytelling — Girls Write Now

On the Art of the Craft A Guidebook to Collaborative Storytelling

Girls Write Now

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

Women and Writing — Virginia Woolf

Women and Writing

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

The Book of Nonexistent Words — Stefano Massini

The Book of Nonexistent Words

Stefano Massini

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

The Best American Essays 2022 — Alexander Chee

The Best American Essays 2022

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

Remarks On Certain Anonymous Articles Designed To Render Queen Victoria Unpopular With An Exposure Of Their Authorship (1864) — John Bellows

Remarks On Certain Anonymous Articles Designed To Render Queen Victoria Unpopular With An Exposure Of Their Authorship (1864)

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

Writing Past Dark Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life — Bonnie Friedman

Writing Past Dark Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life

Bonnie Friedman

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

Why We Write About Ourselves Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature — Meredith Maran

Why We Write About Ourselves Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded) The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction — Jeff VanderMeer

Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded) The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

Jeff VanderMeer

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

The Outlandish Companion Volume 1 — Diana Gabaldon

The Outlandish Companion Volume 1

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

The Weather of Words Poetic Inventions — Mark Strand

The Weather of Words Poetic Inventions

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

The Best American Travel Writing 2016 — Jason Wilson

The Best American Travel Writing 2016

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

The Best American Magazine Writing 2003 — American Society of Magazine Editors

The Best American Magazine Writing 2003

American Society of Magazine Editors

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2023 — Richard Deitsch

The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2023

Richard Deitsch

Themes: Writing • Essays • Literary Collections

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Writing, Essays, Literary Collections — the same threads that run through Great Ideas Why I Write by George Orwell. Among the authors featured: Ali Smith, Lee Child, Glenn Stout, Kameron Hurley, and others.

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