I love a good book about writing, especially one with great exercises. I’m currently working my way through Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer edited by Bret Anthony Johnston. It’s got contributions from different writers who provide a small essay about writing followed by suggested exercises. Not every exercise is interesting or helpful, but I constantly find myself either genuinely prompted or at least noting an exercise to try again later.
Some of my other favorites:
Page After Page by Heather Sellers
Take Joy by Jane Yolen
Poemcrazy by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
Jenel Alan 
I love books on the craft that isn’t the usual On Writing or Bird By Bird. Here are my favourites: The Getaway Car by Ann Patchett and Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk. Anyway, it’s great revisiting this blast from the past! Any new books on the craft since then?
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Thanks for the comment – these aren’t really new in terms of when they were published, but I also really like The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman and Gotham Writer’s Workshop Writing Fiction
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