Recommended Books

Bacon, Wendy. The Well-Crafted Sentence: A Writer’s Guide to Style. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009.

Calvino, Italo. Six Memos for the New Millennium. Vintage Contemporary, 1993.

Clark, Roy Peter. The Glamour of Grammar. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

Clark, Roy Peter. The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing. Little, Brown and Company, 2016

Danticat, Edwidge. Create Dangerously. Vintage Book.s, 2011

Davidson, Jenny, Reading Style: A Life in Sentences. Columbia University Press, 2014.

Dillon, Brian. Suppose a Sentence. New York Review Books, 2020

Florey, Kitty Burns. Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: the Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences. Melville House, 2006.

Forsyth, Mark. The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase. Berkley Books, 2013

Landon, Brooks. Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read. Plume Books, 2013

Lanham, Richard. Analyzing Prose. Continuum, 2003.

Lanham, Richard. Style: An Anti-Textbook. Paul Dry Books, 2007.

Lee, Sherry Quan (ed.). How Dare We! Write: a Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse. Modern History Press, 2017.

Le Guin, Ursula. The Wave in the Mind. Shambhala, 2004.

Livesey, Margot. The Hidden Machinery. Tin House Books, 2017.

Martone, Michael, and Susan Neville. Rules of Thumb: 73 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations. Writer’s Digest Books, 2006.

Morrison, Toni (ed.). Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement. Harper, 2009.

Oliver, Stephanie Stokes (ed.). Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing. 37 INK/Atria, 2018

Pinker, Stephen. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. Penguin Books, 2014

Prose, Francine. Reading Like a Writer. HarperCollins, 2006.

Tufte, Virginia. Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style. Graphics Press, 2006.

Vitto, Cindy L. Grammar by Diagram: Understanding English Grammar through Traditional Sentence Diagramming. Broadview Press, 2006.

Watson, Cecelia. Semicolon: the Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark. Ecco, 2019.

Woods, Geraldine. 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way. Norton, 2020.