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Garner's Modern American Usage

10 best books like Garner's Modern American Usage (Bryan A. Garner): Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, Adventures in the Screen Trade, The Chicago Manual of Style, The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage, Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, The Elements of Editing, The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself), The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, with Exercises and Answer Keys, Harvard Classics: Five Foot Bookshelf, Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific

Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
AuthorBenjamin Dreyer
ISBN0812995708
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century Elements of Style.

As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...
Adventures in the Screen Trade
AuthorWilliam Goldman
ISBN0446391174
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes...
The Chicago Manual of Style
AuthorUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN0226104036
The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been superseded by the 17th edition.

In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet,...
The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage
AuthorKingsley Amis
ISBN0312206577
A Parthian shot from one of the most important figures in post-war British fiction, The King's English is the late Kingsley Amis's last word on the state of the language. More frolicsome than Fowler's Modern Usage, lighter than the Oxford English Dictionary, and brimming with the strong opinions and...
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
AuthorAmerican Psychological Association
ISBN1557987912
With millions of copies sold, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, educators, and professionals in psychology, sociology, business, economics, nursing, social work, and justice administration, and other...
The Elements of Editing
AuthorArthur Plotnik
I'd like to share what is possibly the most erotic paragraph ever to discuss copyediting:

"An editor's only permanent alliance is with the audience, the readership. It is the editor's responsibility to hook that readership; to edify it, entertain it, stroke it, shake it up—do whatever...
The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)
AuthorCarol Fisher Saller
ISBN0226734250
Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor...
The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, with Exercises and Answer Keys
AuthorAmy Einsohn
ISBN0520246888
The Copyeditor's Handbook is a lively, practical manual for newcomers to publishing and for experienced editors who want to fine-tune their skills or broaden their understanding of the craft. Addressed to copyeditors in book publishing and corporate communications, this thoughtful handbook...
Harvard Classics: Five Foot Bookshelf
AuthorCharles William Eliot
Harvard Classics: Five-Foot Shelf of Books
Known as The Harvard Classics, this honored collection encompasses more than 2,000 years of the world's greatest poetry, drama, history, philosophy, scripture, and more. These are the books that have shaped our thoughts, our language...our very...
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific
AuthorEric M. Bergerud
ISBN0140246967
A brilliant history of the land battles in the Pacific theater of World War II, with stirring personal accounts of the horrifying struggle between the Japanese and Allied forces.

The horrors of WWII in the South Pacific extended far beyond the detonation of atomic bombs. In this revelatory...
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