Read. We are not alone. Writers are our teachers. 
As you read, notice how a book is structured. 
Examine the writer's mind. 
If you want to deepen your writing, read widely and often.

The Beautiful Struggle: a memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehishi Coates

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- a memoir by Maya Angelou

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Words Under The Words, selected poems by Naomi Shihab Nye

​Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

Loon: A Marine Story by Jack McLean 

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams

Homebird: Four Seasons on Martha's Vineyard by Laura Wainwright

When Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams