The Writer’s Reference Shelf
An Annotated List of Essential Books on Craft, Style, Genre, and Publishing
These are all books that I own. I haven’t read every single one—there are 3 or 4 that I haven’t gotten to yet—but I have read the rest.
Do I have a problem? Maybe.
This is my best attempt for putting them into some kind of order that makes sense. I don’t know whether any of this is helpful to you, but it certainly is…


