If you
like books about words here
are some others I recommend:
Word
Smart
By Adam Robinson and the staff of the Princeton Review
This is
a great series if you want something quick. Take your pick:
There's
Word Smart, Word Smart 2, Word Smart for the GRE by Anne Curtis,
Word Smart "Genius Edition" by Michael Freedman.
Verbal Advantage
By Charles Harrington Elster
A bit laborious,
but it's a must before you write your first college essay.
Six Weeks to Words of Power
By Wilfred Funk
The best. Unfortunately,
it may be out of print.
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
By Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Grammar shouldn't
be this much fun.
The New Well Tempered Sentence
By Karen Elizabeth Gordon
By the
same author of "The Deluxe Transitive Vampire."
Work out your punctuation kinks
with vampiric relish.
The Instant Intellectual
By Norah Vincent and Chad Conway
Remind me not to play scrabble with the authors.
The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives for
the Extraordinarily Literate
By Eugene Ehrlich
I kid
you not: that is the title. If only I could've been there when he
pitched
that title to the publisher.
The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily
Literate
By Eugene Ehrlich
When your Synonym Finder won't do the trick, here you go.
Word Power Made Easy, and...
By Norman Lewis
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary
By Norman Lewis and Wilfred Funk
Don't stick your
nose up at these oldies-but-goodies.
1100 Words You Need To Know
By Murrey Broomberg and Melvin Gordon
This is a great practice book once you've gone through the others.
The Word Detective
By Evan Morris
The gumshoe of
etymology: What Sam Spade is to crime; Morris is to words.
The Portable Curmudgeon
By Jon Winokur
If you’re not in a bad mood, then you don’t know what’s
going on.
1000 Most Important Words
By Norman W. Shur
I’m sure
you’ll like Shur’s book.
A Word A Day
By Ana Garg
Just when you thought
it was safe to go out.
Vocabulary Cartoons: Building an Educated Vocabulary With
Visual Mnemonics
By Sam Burchers
No one said vocabulary
was going to be pretty.
