Creating Characters: How to Build Story People
10 best books like Creating Characters: How to Build Story People (Dwight V. Swain): Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish, Cosmicomics, Time Travel: A History, The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 11/23 to 12/14, 1974, A Dance with Dragons 2: After the Feast, A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0143039881 |
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 0375757910 |
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately,...
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
| Author | Atul Gawande |
| ISBN | 0805091742 |
The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies‚neither...
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
Craft an Engaging Plot
How does plot influence story structure? What's the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that's gone off course?
With "Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure," you'll discover the answers...
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0156226006 |
Italo Calvino's extraordinary imagination and intelligence combine here in an enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe. He makes his characters out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures. They disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification...
| Author | James Gleick |
| ISBN | 0307908801 |
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.
Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the...
| Author | Mary Gribbin |
| ISBN | 0340945346 |
A very basic introduction to quantum mechanics, theoretical physics, evolution, and other concepts from Philip Pullman's trilogy written at a late elementary/early middle school level. I didn't realize this book was meant for children when I picked it up so I was disappointed by the lack of depth,...
| Author | Werner Herzog |
| ISBN | 0979612101 |
In the winter of 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog made a three week solo journey from Munich to Paris on foot to visit his ailing friend, film critic and historian Lotte Eisner. During this monumental odyssey through a seemingly endless blizzard, Herzog documented everything he saw and felt with intense...
A Dance with Dragons 2: After the Feast
| Author | George R.R. Martin |
| ISBN | 0007466072 |
The fifth volume, part two of A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. Now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, featuring a stellar cast.
The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance.
In King’s Landing the Queen Regent, Cersei Lannister, awaits...
A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust
| Author | George R.R. Martin |
| ISBN | 0007466064 |
In the aftermath of a colossal battle, new threats are emerging from every direction.
Tyrion Lannister, having killed his father, and wrongfully accused of killing his nephew, King Joffrey, has escaped from King’s Landing with a price on his head.
To the north lies the great Wall...
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
| Author | Gaston Leroux |
| ISBN | 0486449289 |
The young lady had just retired to her room when sounds of a struggle ensue, and cries of "Murder!" and revolver shots ring out. When her locked door is finally broken down by her father and a servant, they find the woman on the floor, badly hurt and bleeding. No one else is in the room. There is no other exit...
