A list of useful writing books

On Writing, by Stephen King

The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style

Bird by Bird, by Anne Lemott

Zen and the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury

The Art of Fiction, by John Gardner

Why I write, by George Orwell
http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw

Stein On Writing, by Sol Stein

Beginnings, Middles & Ends, by Nancy Kress

The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Cambell

Writing the Breakout Novel, by Donald Maass

Plot & Structure, by Scott Bell

On Writing, by Ernest Hemingway

How to Grow a Novel, by Sol Stein

Scene and Structure, by Jack M. Brickham

Steering The Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin

The First Five Pages, by Noah Lukeman

The 38 Most Common Fiction Mistakes, by Jack M. Brickham

How I Write: secrets of a best-selling author, by Janet Evanovich

Dynamic Characters, by Nancy Kress

The Forest For the Trees, by Betsy Lerner

The Fire in Fiction, by Donald Maass

How to Write a Damn Good Novel, by James N. Fry

Solutions For the Novelist, by Sol Stein

Talking About Detective Fiction, by P. D. James

Essays in the Art of Writing, by Robert Louis Stevenson
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/492/492-0.txt

Telling Lies for Fun and Profit, by Lawrence Block

Story Engineering, by Larry Brooks

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction, by Patricia Highsmith

Working Days: the journals of the Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

The Language of the Night, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint, by Nancy Kress

How to Write Best Selling Fiction, by Dean Koontz

Writing From the Inside Out, by Dennis Palumbo

How to write Science Fiction, by Orson Scott Card

Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Golberg

The Art of Dramatic Writing, by Lajos Egri

About Writing, by Samuel R. Delany

Aspect of the Novel, by E.M. Foster

On Literature, by Umberto Eco

Write Away, by Elizabeth George

Story, by Robert McKee

Negotiating with the Dead: Margret Attwood

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers" by Renni Browne and Dave King

Journal of a Novel: the East of Eden Letters by John Steinbeck.

The writers art J kilpatrick

Revising Fiction by David Madden

The writing life by Annie Dillard

Immediate Fiction by Jerry Cleaver