2010 Bestselling Books For Writers

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According to the Gotham Writers Workshop the 20 bestselling books on craft from the Writer's Bookshelf in 2010 were:

1. Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide by Gotham Writers' Workshop
2. Fiction Gallery edited by Alex Steele and Thom Didato
3. Writing Movies: The Practical Guide by Gotham Writers' Workshop
4. It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences by June Casagrande
5. Is Life Like This? A Guide to Writing Your Fist Novel in Six Months by John Dufresne
6. Naked, Drunk, and Writing: Shed Your Inhibitions and Craft a Compelling
   Memoir or Personal Essay by Adair Lara
7. Writers and Their Notebooks edited by Diane Raab
8. Immediate Fiction by Jerry Cleaver
9. On Writing: A Memoir on Craft (10th Anniversary Edition) by Stephen King
10. Portable MFA in Creative Writing by New York Writers Workshop
11. The Weekend Novelist Rewrites the Novel: A Step-by-Step Guide to
    Perfecting Your Work by Robert J. Ray
12. The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English by Roy Peter Clark
13. 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers by Peter Selgin
14. Architecture of the Novel: A Writer's Handbook by Jane Vandenburgh
15. Fiction Writer's Workshop by Josip Novakovich
16. The Secret Miracle: The Novelist's Handbook by Daniel Alarcon
17. Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly by Charles Harrington Elster
18. Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T. O'Conner
19. The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World edited by Yahoo!
20. How to Write a Damn Good Thriller: A Step-by-Step Guide for Novelists
    and Screenwriters by James N. Frey