Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
By: Mary Norris
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its …
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1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
By: Lynne Truss
3.87
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in e-mail and now "txt msgs", we have made … read more
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- language
- humor
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- writing
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"The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it."-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
"Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point."-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
"I hear there are now Knightsbridge clinics offering semicolonic irrigation – but for many it may be too late."-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
"...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop."-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2. Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
By: Keith Houston
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From ancient Greece to the Internet—via the Renaissance, Gutenberg, and Madison Avenue—Shady Charac… read more
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- nonfiction
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- language
3. Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
By: Mary Norris
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its … read more
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- biography
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- humor
- nonfiction
- writing
- reference
4. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
By: Kory Stamper
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Do you have strong feelings about the word "irregardless"? Have you ever tried to define the word "… read more
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5. A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
By: John Baxter
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with… read more
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6. Essential Bukowski: Poetry
By: Charles Bukowski
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transg… read more
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7. Little Labors
By: Rivka Galchen
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rivka Galchen's Little Labors is a droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, a… read more
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8. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
By: Francine Prose
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
In her entertaining and edifying New York Timesbestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites … read more
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9. Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
By: Mignon Fogarty
3.89
Format: 440 pages,
Online sensation Grammar Girl makes grammar fun and easy in her print debut Are you stumped by spli… read more
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10. The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago
By: Carol Fisher Saller
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A pag… read more
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11. Draft No. 4
By: John McPhee
4.34
Format: 640 pages,
A superb essay on the difficulties and joys of composition. read more
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12. Murder at la Villette (Aimée Leduc Investigations, #21)
By: Cara Black
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter’s father—n… read more
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13. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
By: Dennis Duncan
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. Bu… read more
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- writing
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"[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows: 'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".' 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is…"-Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
14. Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language
By: Judith Tschann
3.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"A truly delightful smorgasbord of history and linguistics that kept us entertained—and made us hun… read more
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15. Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
By: Katie Gee Salisbury
3.99
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of H… read more
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- biography
- memoir
16. Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
By: Benjamin Dreyer
4.35
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and on… read more
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- humor
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"I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up, which is a problem when you've already grown up"-Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
"And that’s often the problem, isn’t it? In writing and in so many things: that we accept things we’re taught without thinking about them at all."-Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
"He implied without saying." ...I scarcely had the heart to cross out "without quite saying" and to note in the margin, politely and succinctly, ""-Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
"As a lexicographer friend once confided over sushi, the dictionary takes its cues from use: If writers don’t change things, the dictionary doesn’t change things."-Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
17. Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
By: Sarah Hart
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning.” ―Jordan Elle… read more
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- writing
18. A Market of Dreams and Destiny
By: Trip Galey
3.90
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Nominated for the 2024 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature! Enter the bazaar of the bi… read more
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"Deri was well and truly caught, a fly in the web of words and wonder spun by the actors on the stage."-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny
"Woven of wise women’s insight and young men’s dreams, of societal expectations and half-moon’s beams, Maurlocke’s robe habitually changed its form to match the expectations of the merchant’s customer…"-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny
"But it was humbling. Awe-inspiring, even. There was a gravity about the stone, a surreal sense of vastness. And the resonant sense of lost love, the sheer depth of it reverberated through the stone, …"-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny
19. Rebel With A Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
By: Ellen Jovin
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Mary Norris and Benjamin Dreyer, an unconventional guide to the English language drawn … read more
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- writing
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20. Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
By: Cecelia Watson
3.67
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuat… read more
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- nonfiction
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- language
"The semicolon was born in Venice in 1494"-Cecelia Watson, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
"At times I've felt less like a punctuation theorist than like a punctuation therapist"-Cecelia Watson, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
21. Making Sense of Grammar
By: David Crystal
4.01
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
* Moves the analysis of grammar and language structure onto the next stage -- interpreting it from … read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
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"The two billion people who speak English these days live mainly in countries where they’ve learned English as a foreign language. There are only around 400 million mother-tongue speakers – chiefly li…"-David Crystal, Making Sense of Grammar
