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The Elements of Style

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Books like The Elements of Style

If you loved The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Lynne Truss

No. 2

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser

No. 3

On Writing

Stephen King

No. 4

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

No. 5

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

No. 6

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli, Adolph Caso, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez

No. 7

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Malcolm Gladwell

No. 8

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

No. 9

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

No. 10

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

No. 11

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, John Seelye

No. 12

Hamlet

William Shakespeare, Richard Andrews, Rex Gibson

No. 13

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

No. 14

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare, Robert Jackson

No. 15

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Oliver Sacks

No. 16

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

No. 17

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

No. 18

1984

George Orwell

No. 19

Animal Farm

George Orwell

No. 20

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain, John Seelye, Guy Cardwell

No. 21

Charlotte's Web

E.B. White, Garth Williams, Rosemary Wells

No. 22

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

No. 23

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig

No. 24

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt, B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday