THE BEST BOOKS ON ENGLISH: STYLE GUIDES
Fowler's Modern English Usage (re-revised edition)
The Guardian Stylebook (2007)
The Economist style guide
The Oxford style manual
The Times Style and Usage Guide
Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style
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THE BEST BOOKS ON ENGLISH: USAGE GUIDES
The Elements of Style
Fowler's Modern English Usage (re-revised)
(Re-Revised 3rd Edition)
The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style (US)
Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
The Cambridge Guide to English Usage
Usage and abusage
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THE BEST BOOKS ON ENGLISH-LANGUAGE HISTORY: POPULAR
The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language
Mother Tongue: The English Language
Dr.Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World
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THE BEST BOOKS ON ENGLISH-LANGUAGE HISTORY: REFERENCE
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
A History of the English Language
A history of English
The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (US)
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THE BEST ENGLISH DICTIONARIES
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THE BEST BOOKS ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE: POPULAR COMMENT
Troublesome Words
The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
Lost for Words: The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Beyond Words: How Language Reveals the Way We Live Now
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THE BEST BOOKS ON ENGLISH GRAMMAR
Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation
Practical English Usage (3rd Edition)
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THE BEST BOOKS ON ENGLISH COPYEDITING, SUB EDITING, PROOFING
Butcher's Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-editors and Proofreaders
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THE BEST ENGLISH BOOKS ON BUSINESS AND COMMUNICATIONS
Revising Business Prose
Public Relations Writing: Form and Style
Read This!: Business Writing that Works
Model Business Letters, E-Mails and Other Business Documents
Business Grammar & Style Usage: The Desk Reference for Articulate & Polished Business Writing, Speaking & Correspondence
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THE BEST BOOKS ON PUNCTUATION
The Penguin Guide to Punctuation
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation
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THE BEST BOOKS ON JOURNALISM
The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
Essential English (Harold Evans)
Tell me no lies: investigative journalism and its triumfs (John Pilger)
Flat-earth news
(Nick Davies)
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THE BEST BOOKS ON PLAIN ENGLISH
Oxford Guide to Plain English
The Penguin Guide to Plain English
The Plain English Approach to Business Writing
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THE BEST BOOKS ON ENGLISH FROM THE US
The Elements of Style
The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style
The Elephants of Style: Gray Areas of Contemporary American English
The Chicago Manual of Style: For Authors, Editors and Copywriters
Guide to Punctuation and Style
The Chicago Manual of Style
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