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“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
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Garner's Modern English Usage (5th edition)
by Bryan A. Garner -
The Sense of Style
by Steven Pinker -
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
by Jane Straus -
The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications
by Amy Einsohn -
Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
by K. M. Elisabeth Murray -
Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style
by Arthur Plotnik
