Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Creating Character Emotions | 1998 | Ann Hood | Buy |
| 2 | Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time | 2000 | Ann Hood | Buy |
| 3 | Comfort: A Journey Through Grief | 2008 | Ann Hood | Buy |
| 4 | Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting | 2015 | Ann Hood | Buy |
| 5 | Morningstar: Growing Up With Books | 2017 | Ann Hood | Buy |
| 6 | Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food | 2018 | Ann Hood | Buy |
| 7 | Fly Girl: A Memoir | 2022 | Ann Hood | Buy |
Ann Hood’s non-fiction ranges from practical writing advice to deeply personal memoir. Creating Character Emotions (1998) is a craft guide for fiction writers, while Do Not Go Gentle (2000) recounts her search for meaning after personal tragedy. Comfort: A Journey Through Grief (2008) is her most well-known non-fiction work, written after the sudden death of her young daughter.
Later non-fiction includes themed collections like Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food (2018) and Morningstar: Growing Up With Books (2017), which combines memoir with reflections on the books that shaped her. Fly Girl: A Memoir (2022) looks back at her time as a TWA flight attendant in the 1970s and 1980s.