Lists of Bests: Shannon's "Reference Library for Writers and Readers" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/59929 Good reference books to have in your library if you are a writer, a reader, or both. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:20:28 GMT en-us 0 50 34 0 0 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (Book Only) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/327323 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/327323"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0877798079.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Merriam-Webster</div> Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition (21st Century Reference) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1650856 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1650856"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/044024269X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Ann Kipfer</div> Associated Press Stylebook 2002, and Briefing on Media Law with Internet Guide and Glossary, 37th Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4391761 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4391761"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TW%2BugWNEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Associated Press</div> The Chicago Manual of Style http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4943 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4943"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226104036.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056426203_.jpg" /></a></div> The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2602416 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2602416"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520246888.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1139898074_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Einsohn</div> Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style, Second Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/327329 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/327329"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415925517.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by PHILIP RUBENS</div> A Glossary of Literary Terms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3532478 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by M.H. Abrams</div> The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/711905 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/711905"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618382011.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Elizabeth Gordon</div> Fumblerules - Lighthearted Guide To Grammar And Good Usage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5323399 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Safire</div> The Elements of Style: 50th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4432894 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4432894"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31Tm7NLA7WL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Strunk</div> The Writer's Home Companion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2996976 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> My Editor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4115877 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by M. B. Goffstein</div> Rotten Reviews: a literary companion. Introduction by Anthony Brandt and illustrations by Mary Kornblum. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2997011 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill, editor. HENDERSON</div> On Being a Writer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2997019 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Strickland</div> Writers on Writing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1444730 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Winokur</div> The Writing Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1202 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1202"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060919884.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annie Dillard</div> Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10276 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10276"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385480016.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Lamott</div> Revising Fiction: A Handbook for Writers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14018 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Madden</div> The Weekend Novelist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25987 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25987"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0823084507.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1104949213_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert J Ray</div> How to Be Your Own Best Editor : The Toolkit for Everyone Who Writes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/805162 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/805162"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/051788366X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barry Tarshis</div> Sci-Fi Baby Names: 500 Out-of-This-World Baby Names from Anakin to Zardoz http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4936493 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4936493"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51z2QczjPZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Schnakenberg</div> The Penguin Classic Baby Name Book http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5243441 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5243441"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MVPCQ2DML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carol Wallace</div> Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/667 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/667"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060514469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas A. Basbanes</div> Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia: Fourth Edition (Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1928009 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1928009"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/006270110X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057188157_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bruce Murphy</div> The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589384 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589384"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1586632043.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056524839_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. John Campbell</div> 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/534363 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/534363"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033187.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Smiley</div> The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557032 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557032"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0801880106.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1082487700_.jpg" /></a></div> Amy Vanderbilt's Etiquette http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2997073 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Letitia Baldrige</div> Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3501660 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3501660"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01pWxFG5MtL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Steffen</div> Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1663935 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1663935"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GEAELU.01-APDTMPIBO8EBV._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jan Harold Brunvand</div> Writers Dreaming: 26 Writers Talk About Their Dreams and the Creative Process http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/345631 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/345631"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679741410.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naomi Epel</div> Stephen King's Danse Macabre http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1082289 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1082289"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/042518160X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen King</div> On Writing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21457 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21457"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743455967.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen King</div> An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2823710 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2823710"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01-gAh+meUL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Al Gore</div>