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The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,319 ratings — published 1918
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 327,023 ratings — published 2002
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,932 ratings — published 2003
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 114,664 ratings — published 1994
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,607 ratings — published 1976
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,379 ratings — published 2014
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,601 ratings — published 2013
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,541 ratings — published 2017
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,743 ratings — published 1994
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,984 ratings — published 2006
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,949 ratings — published 1973
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,831 ratings — published 2019
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,568 ratings — published 2019
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,962 ratings — published 1990
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,139 ratings — published 2006
Scrivener Essentials: A Quick Start Visual Guide for Mac Users (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 67 ratings — published 2014
Scrivener Essentials: A Quick Start Visual Guide For Windows Users (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.12 — 130 ratings — published 2014
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,940 ratings — published 2011
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,681 ratings — published 2010
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,934 ratings — published 1940
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,237 ratings — published 2013
Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by (shelved 5 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,073 ratings — published 1981
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,257 ratings — published 1984
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,238 ratings — published 1993
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,529 ratings — published 2013
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,266 ratings — published 2008
Outlining Your Novel (Helping Writers Become Authors, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,903 ratings — published 2011
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,707 ratings — published 2014
It Was The Best Of Sentences, It Was The Worst Of Sentences: A Writer's Guide To Crafting Killer Sentences (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,625 ratings — published 2010
Stein on Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,861 ratings — published 1995
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,445 ratings — published 2007
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 32,409 ratings — published 1986
The Chicago Manual of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,192 ratings — published 1906
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.32 — 808 ratings — published
Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 594 ratings — published 2006
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing (Quick & Dirty Tips)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,274 ratings — published 2008
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,321 ratings — published 2001
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,316 ratings — published 2021
The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,240 ratings — published 2018
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 435 ratings — published 1965
Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.13 — 472 ratings — published 1994
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.49 — 3,389 ratings — published 2011
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,985 ratings — published 2016
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,705 ratings — published 2012
Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,066 ratings — published 2017
Why I Write (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,291 ratings — published 1946
Exercises in Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,449 ratings — published 1947
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,586 ratings — published 2012
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression (Writers Helping Writers, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 4.53 — 6,446 ratings — published 2012
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as language-writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,534 ratings — published 2002
“Language can turn into a prison or a set of wings that can help us fly.”
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