Recommendations from our site
“If you’re going to have just one book on a desert island and you are a writer, I would say this is the book to have…every single person who writes in English, or at least American English, should be required to own this book and read it, and demonstrate that they’ve read it. It should be like getting a driver’s license. Before you can post a blog, before you can write an email, you need to have a writer’s license! And this is the test. This book is the test.” Read more...
The Best Grammar and Punctuation Books
Mark Nichol, Linguist
Our most recommended books
-

Garner's Modern English Usage (5th edition)
by Bryan A. Garner -

The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications
by Amy Einsohn -

The Sense of Style
by Steven Pinker -

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
-

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
by Merriam-Webster -

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
by Oxford University Press






