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Shannon's "Reference Library for Writers and Readers"

Good reference books to have in your library if you are a writer, a reader, or both.
1. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (Book Only)
by Merriam-Webster
  
3. Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition (21st Century Reference)
by Barbara Ann Kipfer
  
4. Associated Press Stylebook 2002, and Briefing on Media Law with Internet Guide and Glossary, 37th Edition
by Associated Press
  
5. The Chicago Manual of Style  
6. The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications
by Amy Einsohn
  
7. Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style, Second Edition
by PHILIP RUBENS
  
8.
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 A Glossary of Literary Terms
by M.H. Abrams
  
9. The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
  
10.
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 Fumblerules - Lighthearted Guide To Grammar And Good Usage
by William Safire
  
11. The Elements of Style: 50th Anniversary Edition
by William Strunk
  
13.
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 The Writer's Home Companion  
14.
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 My Editor
by M. B. Goffstein
  
15.
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 Rotten Reviews: a literary companion. Introduction by Anthony Brandt and illustrations by Mary Kornblum.
by Bill, editor. HENDERSON
  
16.
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 On Being a Writer
by Bill Strickland
  
17.
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 Writers on Writing
by Jon Winokur
  
18. The Writing Life
by Annie Dillard
  
19. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
  
20.
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 Revising Fiction: A Handbook for Writers
by David Madden
  
21. The Weekend Novelist
by Robert J Ray
  
22. How to Be Your Own Best Editor : The Toolkit for Everyone Who Writes
by Barry Tarshis
  
23. Sci-Fi Baby Names: 500 Out-of-This-World Baby Names from Anakin to Zardoz
by Robert Schnakenberg
  
24. The Penguin Classic Baby Name Book
by Carol Wallace
  
26. Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
  
27. Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia: Fourth Edition (Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia)
by Bruce Murphy
  
28. The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics
by W. John Campbell
  
29. 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
by Jane Smiley
  
30. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism  
33.
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 Amy Vanderbilt's Etiquette
by Letitia Baldrige
  
34. Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
by Alex Steffen
  
35. Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends
by Jan Harold Brunvand
  
40. Writers Dreaming: 26 Writers Talk About Their Dreams and the Creative Process
by Naomi Epel
  
41. Stephen King's Danse Macabre
by Stephen King
  
42. On Writing
by Stephen King
  
43. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by Al Gore
  
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Created by Shannon on Oct 21, 2008.