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The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,528 ratings — published 1918
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 321,945 ratings — published 2000
Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.47 — 1,404 ratings — published 2011
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 31,183 ratings — published 1976
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 106,657 ratings — published 2003
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 11,136 ratings — published 1911
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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avg rating 4.58 — 1,060,659 ratings — published 1955
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,190,213 ratings — published 1954
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,929 ratings — published 2006
Sweet Theft: A Poet's Commonplace Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 38 ratings — published 2016
The Writing Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 18,507 ratings — published 1989
Writers to Read: Nine Names That Belong on Your Bookshelf (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 254 ratings — published 2015
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 11,958 ratings — published 2006
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,849,799 ratings — published 1590
History in English Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 346 ratings — published 1926
The Rhetoric Companion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 127 ratings — published 2011
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 112,396 ratings — published 1994
A Serrated Edge: A Brief Defense of Biblical Satire and Trinitarian Skylarking (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 667 ratings — published 2003
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 21,600 ratings — published 1973
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,293 ratings — published 2008
The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate (Highly Selective Reference)
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avg rating 4.19 — 162 ratings — published 1994
The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 241 ratings — published 1997
The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, with Exercises and Answer Keys (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 1,462 ratings — published 2000
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 122,639 ratings — published 1998
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,228 ratings — published 2005
Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 4,455 ratings — published 2009
Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy and Its Decline (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 45 ratings — published 1981
A Mencken Chrestomathy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,523 ratings — published 1949
Rhetoric (The critical idiom)
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avg rating 3.56 — 16 ratings — published 1971
Writing Dialogue (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 397 ratings — published 1998
Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 456 ratings — published 1928
Making Shapely Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,202 ratings — published 1991
The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 256 ratings — published 2000
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 6,340 ratings — published 1984
First You Write: The Worst Way to Become an Almost Famous Author And The Best Advice I Got While Doing It (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 45 ratings — published 2012
Ifferisms: An Anthology of Aphorisms That Begin with the Word "IF" – Wit, Wisdom, and Hypothetical Thinking for Linguaphiles (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 119 ratings — published 2009
Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.98 — 258 ratings — published 2013
F*ck Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 23,685 ratings — published 2015
Writer's Market 2020: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,379 ratings — published
Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 657 ratings — published
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
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avg rating 4.03 — 376,057 ratings — published 1911
Write Tight: Say Exactly What You Mean with Precision and Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 241 ratings — published 1993
Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,731 ratings — published 2019
The Complete Book of Grant Writing: Learn to Write Grants Like a Professional (Includes 20 Samples of Grant Proposals and More for Nonprofits, Educators, Artists, Businesses, and Entrepreneurs)
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avg rating 3.74 — 54 ratings — published 2006
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,292 ratings — published 2019
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 6,354 ratings — published 2018
Grammar for a Full Life: How the Ways We Shape a Sentence Can Limit or Enlarge Us (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.90 — 668 ratings — published 2020
On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2016
The Artist's Guide to Grant Writing: How to Find Funds and Write Foolproof Proposals for the Visual, Literary, and Performing Artist (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 137 ratings — published 2010
Greek for Life: Strategies for Learning, Retaining, and Reviving New Testament Greek (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 565 ratings — published
“though romantic, he was singularly methodical and detested nothing so much as a ball of string on the floor”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.”
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