Composition & Creative Writing

120 books

The Elements of Style

E. B. White, Roger Angell, William Strunk, Jr.

1920 ★ 3.7

Bird by Bird

Susan Bennett, Anne Lamott

1994 ★ 3.8

Janson's history of art

Ann M. Roberts, David L. Simon, Penelope J. E. Davies et al.

2007 ★ 4.8

The Norton field guide to writing

Richard H. Bullock

2006

The Sense of Style

Steven Pinker, José C. Vales

2014 ★ 4.2

Simon & Schuster handbook for writers

Doug Hesse, Lynn Quitman Troyka, Lynn Q. Troyka

1987

Writing Tools

Roy Peter Clark

2006 ★ 4.0

The Storytelling Animal

Jonathan Gottschall

2012 ★ 4.0

The Little, Brown handbook

Murray McArthur, H. Ramsey Fowler, Jane E. Aaron et al.

1983

"They Say / I Say"

Cathy Birkenstein, Gerald Graff

2006

TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

Chris Anderson

2016

Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

Jeff VanderMeer, Adam Verner, Ryan Burke et al.

2013

The meaning of meaning

Francis Graham Crookshank, Umberto Eco, C. K. Ogden et al.

1923

The copyeditor's handbook

Amy Einsohn

2000

Several short sentences about writing

Verlyn Klinkenborg

2012

The Little Seagull handbook

Richard Bullock

2011

How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper

Robert A. Day

1983

Cohesion in English

Michael Halliday

1976

Metafiction

Patricia Waugh

1984

Letters of note

Shaun Usher

2013

The elements of screenwriting

Irwin R. Blacker

1986

Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum

Rosen, Len Rosen, Leonard J. Rosen et al.

1991

The writing process

John M. Lannon

1983

Reading for the plot

Peter Brooks

1985

How to write a thesis

Rowena Murray

2002

Business English

Andrea B. Geffner

1998

You write it

Hamilton, John

2009

A pocket style manual

Diana Hacker

1993

Creative Writing

Adele Ramet

2005

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

John McPhee

2017