We didn't believe it, either, but you really can learn a lot from reading a book!  If you've ever wanted some worthwhile advice from someone other than your high school English teacher, this is the place to look.  The authors below are experts in their fields, well-respected and admired by accomplished writers from all over the world, and we're bringing you a list of their most prized and collectively-effective books.  (Tried-and-tested by our worthy administrators, no less!)

So what're you waiting for?  Learn how to make every word count!

Reading Resource List for the Aspiring Writer

General Prose:

Writing Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques  (Jim Burke)

Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer  (Roy Peter Clark)

Writing without Teachers  (Peter Elbow)

Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process  (Peter Elbow)

On Writing (Stephen King)

Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly  (Gail Carson Levine)

A Writer Teachers Writing Revised (Donald Murray)

Write to Learn (Donald Murray)

Clearing the Way: Working with Teenage Writers  (Tom Romano)

Crafting Authentic Voice  (Tom Romano)

Writing with Passion: Life Stories, Multiple Genres  (Tom Romano)

The Elements of Style (William Strunk, Jr., E.B. White, and Roger Angell)

Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing  (John R. Trimble)

Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--and How to Avoid Them  (Bill Walsh)

The Elephants of Style : A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English  (Bill Walsh)

Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace  (Joseph M. Williams)

On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (William Zinsser)



Grammar:

The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed  (Karen Elizabeth Gordon)

Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose  (Constance Hale)

The Holt Handbook (Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell)

Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects  (Martha Kolln)

Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English  (Patricia T. O'Conner)

Grammatically Correct (Anne Stillman)

Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Lynn Truss)



Revision and Editing:

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print  (Renni Browne and Dave King)

The Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques That Work  (Georgia Heard)

The Craft of Revision (Donald Murray)

Revising Prose  (Richard A. Lanham)



Screenwriting:

Screenwriting Updated: New (and Conventional) Ways of Writing for the Screen (Linda Aronson)

Screenwriting for Teens: The 100 Principles of Screenwriting Every Budding Writer Must Know (Christina Hamlett)

The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers (Karl Iglesias)

Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting (Robert McKee)

Screenwriting for Dummies (Laura Schellhardt)

Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Blake Snyder)

Power Screenwriting: The 12 Stages of Story Development (Michael Chase Walker)