All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals
John Conway
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Driven: Rush in the ’90s and “In the End” (Rush Across the Decades, 3)
Martin Popoff
4.8 on Amazon
3 HN comments
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
Aldo Leopold and Barbara Kingsolver
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: The Definitive, Updated 2nd Edition
Betty Edwards
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Styled: Secrets for Arranging Rooms, from Tabletops to Bookshelves
Emily Henderson and Angelin Borsics
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating
Lauren Liess
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Jazz Theory Book
Mark Levine
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less
Mark Kistler
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
John Trudy
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Robert Iger, Jim Frangione, et al.
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Signs and Symbols
DK and Miranda Bruce-Mitford
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Artists: Their Lives and Works
DK and Ross King
4.8 on Amazon
1 HN comments
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
Gucci Mane and Neil Martinez-Belkin
4.8 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Music Theory For Dummies
Michael Pilhofer and Holly Day
4.7 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Immersion: Living and Learning in an Olmsted Garden
Nola Anderson
5 on Amazon
1 HN comments
weeksieonOct 29, 2018
* Secrets of Story by Matt Bird
* Anatomy of Story by John Truby
* Breakout Novelist by Donald Maass
* Self Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King
Enjoy!
BalgaironJan 20, 2021
https://www.lessonsfromthescreenplay.com/reading-list
The list is geared towards film media, but is a great guide on writing in general. I've read and annotated my way through all of them with gusto. I can very much recommend Into the Woods and Anatomy of Story as superb guides that really dig in deep into why we humans fall for the same stories time and time again. They are brass-tacks books and pretty philosophical at the same time, a rare combo.
Michael's list is a great place to continue studying film specifically, but writing in general.