• Lapsing into a Comma, Bill Walsh (RIP)
• The 10% Solution, Ken Rand (for editing down wordy text)
• Sin and Syntax, Constance Hale
• Woe Is I, Patricia T. O'Conner
More resource-like and grammar-heavy:
• Words Into Type, Marjorie E. Skillin (hard-core grammar rules, great section on redundancies)
• Chicago Manual of Style (in general, the core style of book and magazine writing)
• Associated Press Stylebook (in general, the core style of newspaper writing)
• Garner's Modern English Usage, Bryan A. Garner
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
• Dictionary of American Idioms, Maxine Tull Makkai
Not about writing, but hilarious and snobby and awesome -- great airplane reading:
• The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, Charles Harrington Elster
• Lapsing into a Comma, Bill Walsh (RIP)
• The 10% Solution, Ken Rand (for editing down wordy text)
• Sin and Syntax, Constance Hale
• Woe Is I, Patricia T. O'Conner
More resource-like and grammar-heavy:
• Words Into Type, Marjorie E. Skillin (hard-core grammar rules, great section on redundancies)
• Chicago Manual of Style (in general, the core style of book and magazine writing)
• Associated Press Stylebook (in general, the core style of newspaper writing)
• Garner's Modern English Usage, Bryan A. Garner
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
• Dictionary of American Idioms, Maxine Tull Makkai
Not about writing, but hilarious and snobby and awesome -- great airplane reading:
• The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, Charles Harrington Elster