Here's a list of all the books I own on the topic of writing (please note that I haven't read most of them! lol). Will add to this list if I happen to buy more:

1. Beyond The Words -- The Three Untapped Sources of Creative Fulfillment For Writers (Bonni Goldberg)
2. Bird By Bird -- Some Instructions On Writing And Life (Anne Lamott)
3. Chicken Soup For The Writer's Soul -- Stories To Open The Heart & Rekindle The Spirit Of Writers
4. Escaping Into The Open -- The Art Of Writing True (Elizabeth Berg)
5. Finding Your Writer's Voice -- A Guide To Creative Fiction (Thaisa Frank & Dorothy Wall)
6. How Not To Write -- The Essential Misrules Of Grammar (William Safire)
7. How To Write Funny -- Add Humour To Every Kind of Writing (edited by John B. Kachuba)
8. I'd Rather Be Writing (Marcia Golub)
9. If You Want To Write -- A Book About Art, Independence & Spirit (Brenda Ueland)
10. Indirections For Those Who Want To Write (Sidney Cox)
11. Language On A Leash (Bruce O. Boston)
12. One Continuous Mistake -- Four Noble Truths For Writers (Gail Sher)
13. On Writing -- A Memoir Of The Craft (Stephen King)
14. On Writing Well -- An Informal Guide To Writing Non-Fiction (William Zinsser)
15. Panning For Gold In The Kitchen Sink -- Everyday Creative Writing (Michael C. Smith & Suzanne Greenberg)
16. Pen On Fire -- A Busy Woman's Guide To Igniting The Writer Within (Barbara DeMarco-Barrett)
17. Surviving A Writer's Life (Suzanne Lipsett)
18. Take Joy -- A Book For Writers (Jane Yolen)
19. The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes -- And How To Avoid Them (Jack M. Bickham)
20. The Art & Craft Of The Short Story (Rick DeMarinis)
21. The Art Of Fiction (David Lodge)
22. The Borzoi Handbook For Writers
23. The Courage To Write -- How Writers Transcend Fear (Ralph Keyes)
24. The Forest For The Trees -- An Editor's Advice To Writers (Betsy Lerner)
25. The Modern Library Writer's Workshop -- A Guide To The Craft Of Fiction (Stephen Koch)
26. The Pen Commandments -- A Guide For The Beginning Writer (Steven Frank)
27. The Right To Write -- An Invitation & Initiation Into The Writing Life (Julia Cameron)
28. The Writer On Her Work (Vol 1) (Edited by Janet Sternburg)
29. The Writer's Idea Book -- How To Develop Great Ideas For Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry & Screenplays (Jack Heffrom)
30. What If? -- Writing Exercises For Fiction Authors (Anne Bernays & Pamela Painter)
31. Why I Write -- Thoughts On The Craft Of Fiction (edited by Will Blythe)
32. Wild Mind -- Living The Writer's Life (Natalie Goldberg)
33. Words Fail Me -- What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing (Patricia T. O'Connor)
34. Writers [On Writing] -- Collected Essays From The New York Times
35. Writing Down The Bones -- Freeing The Writer Within (Natalie Goldberg)
36. Writing From The Inside Out -- Transforming Your Psychological Blocks To Release The Writer Within (Dennis Palumbo)
37. Writing Past Dark -- Envy, Fear, Distraction, And Other Dilemmas In The Writer's Life (Bonnie Friedman)
38. Writing With Style -- Conversations On The Art Of Writing (John R. Trimble)

I've always had dreams of travelling; one of my regrets is that I did not manage to pursue my tertiary studies overseas and discover what it is like to live in a foreign country, with a different culture and different climate. Nowadays I still think it would be lovely to travel... with the right companion. One with a sense of curiosity and good humour and a positive outlook on life.

1. Are You Experienced? (William Sutcliffe)
2. A Woman Alone -- Travel Tales From Around The Globe (edited by Faith Coulon, Ingrid Emerick & Christina Henry de Tessan)
3. A Woman's Passion For Travel (edited by Marybeth Bond & Pamela Michael)
4. A Woman's World -- True Stories Of World Travel (edited by Marybeth Bond)
5. Chicken Soup For The Traveller's Soul -- Stories Of Adventure, Inspiration & Insight To Celebrate The Spirit Of Travel
6. Her Fork In The Road -- Women Celebrate Food & Travel (edited by Lisa Bach)
7. Last Trout In Venice -- The Far-Flung Escapades Of An Accidental Adventurer (Doug Lansky)
8. Love & Romance -- True Stories Of Passion On The Road (edited by Judith Babcock Wylie)
9. Not So Funny When It Happened -- The Best Of Travel Humour & Misadventure (edited by Tim Cahill)
10. Sand In My Bra & Other Misadventures -- Funny Women Write From The Road (edited by Jennifer L. Leo)
11. Testosterone Planet -- True Stories From A Man's World (edited by James & Sean O'Reilly and Larry Habegger)
12. The Kindness Of Strangers -- Tales Of Fate & Fortune On The Road (edited by Don George)
13. Worst Journeys: The Picador Book Of Travel (edited by Keath Fraser)

A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner):

1. Gold Comes In Bricks
2. Shills Can't Cash Chips
3. Some Women Won't Wait
4. Spill The Jackpot
5. The Count Of Nine

Agatha Christie:

1. 13 At Dinner
2. At Bertram's Hotel
3. Cards On The Table
4. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
5. Five Little Pigs
6. Hercule Poirot's Christmas
7. Murder On The Orient Express
8. The Complete Quin & Satterthwaite: Love Detectives
9. The Complete Parker Pyne: Private Eye
10. The Labours of Hercules
11. Three Blind Mice & Other Stories

Erle Stanley Gardner:

1. The Case Of The Blonde Bonanza
2. The Case Of The Borrowed Brunette
3. The Case Of The Daring Decoy
4. The Case Of The Deadly Toy
5. The Case Of The Fan-Dancer's Horse
6. The Case Of The Fenced-In Woman
7. The Case Of The Gilded Lily
8. The Case Of The Glamorous Ghost
9. The Case Of The Ice-Cold Hands
10. The Case Of The Lazy Lover
11. The Case Of The Lucky Legs
12. The Case Of The Moth-Eaten Mink
13. The Case Of The Reluctant Model
14. The Case Of The Rolling Bones
15. The Case Of The Shapely Shadow
16. The Case Of The Spurious Spinster
17. The Case Of The Substitute Face
18. The Case Of The Terrified Typist
19. The Case Of The Velvet Claws
20. The Case Of The Waylaid Wolf

Jonathan Gash:

1. Firefly Gadroom
2. Gold By Gemini
3. The Grace In Older Women
4. The Possessions Of A Lady
5. The Rich & The Profane

Martha Grimes:

1. I Am The Only Running Footman
2. Jerusalem Inn
3. Help The Poor Struggler
4. The Deer Leap
5. The End Of The Pier
6. The Five Bells And Bladebone
7. The Horse You Came In On
8. The Lamorna Wink
9. The Man With A Load Of Mischief
10. The Old Silent
11. The Stargazery

Other authors:

1. A Blunt Instrument (Georgette Heyer)
2. Cross That Palm When I Come To It (Audley Southcott)
3. Miss Melville Regrets (Evelyn E. Smith)
4. Most Wanted -- A Line-Up Of Favourite Crime Stories (edited by Robert J. Randisi)
5. Murder In Miniature: The Short Stories Of Leo Bruce
6. My Gal Sunday (Mary Higgins Clark)
7. Sherlock Holmes -- The Complete Illustrated Short Stories (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Anthologies:

1. A Woman's Eye (edited by Sara Paretsky)
2. Bad Behaviour (edited by Mary Higgins Clark)
3. Banquets Of The Black Widowers (Isaac Asimov)
4. Crime After Crime (edited by Joan Hess, Ed Gorman, and Martin H. Greenberg)
5. Golden Age Detective Stories (edited by Marie Smith)
6. Great Crime Stories
7. Law & Order (edited by Cynthia Manson)
8. Reader's Digest Great Stories of Mystery & Suspense vol 1
9. Reader's Digest Great Stories of Mystery & Suspense vol 2
10. Sisters In Crime vol 1 (edited by Marilyn Wallace)
11. Sisters In Crime vol 3 (edited by Marilyn Wallace)
12. Sisters In Crime vol 5 (edited by Marilyn Wallace)
13. Solved! -- Famous Mystery Writers On True-Crime Cases (edited by Richard Glyn Jones)
14. The Plot Thickens
15. Victorian Detective Stories (selected by Michael Cox)
16. Women of Mystery Book 1 (edited by Cynthia Manson)
17. Women of Mystery Book 2 (edited by Cynthia Manson)
18. Women of Mystery Book 3 (edited by Kathleen Halligan)

I am getting lazy, so these days I tend to buy short story anthologies. Short stories are easier to read than novels and also finish faster!

1. Campbell's Crossing & Other Very Short Stories (Alan Maley)
2. Catharine & Other Writings (Jane Austen)
3. Don't Look Now & Other Stories (Daphne du Maurier)
4. First Fiction -- An Anthology Of The First Published Stories By Famous Writers (edited by Kathy Kiernan & Michael M. Moore)
5. Happy Days & Other Very Short Stories (Jake Allsop)
6. Ladybirds & Other Very Short Stories (Jake Allsop)
7. Lucky Luke & Other Very Short Stories (Paul Stewart)
8. Musical Cheers & Other Very Short Stories (Alan Maley)
9. Other Voices, Other Vistas -- Short Stories From Africa, China, India, Japan & Latin America (edited by Barbara H. Solomon)
10. Russian Fairy Tales (collected by Aleksandr Afanas'ev)
11. Seconds Of Pleasure (Neil LaBute)
12. Short Stories From The 19th Century (selected by David Stuart Davies)
13. Signatures: An Anthology For Writers (Lorraine Granieri & Linda Hillman)
14. The Complete Illustrated Stories Of Hans Christian Anderson
15. The Diamond As Big As The Ritz & Other Stories (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
16. The Great Short Stories Of Yesterday (compiled by F. H. Pritchard)
17. The Lady Or The Tiger & Other Stories (Frank Stockton)
18. Wild Mushrooms & Other Very Short Stories (Jake Allsop)

I've long had a love affair with poetry, especially the kind that rhymes. But I had no idea I had so many books of poetry until I sat down and wrote out this list! Egads!

1. 16th-Century Poetry
2. 17th-Century Poetry
3. 18th-Century Poetry
4. 50 poems (e e cummings)
5. A Book Of Love Poetry (edited by Jon Stallworthy)
6. A World Of Poetry (selected by Michael Rosem)
7. Brontë -- The Complete Poems
8. Collected Poems Of Emily Dickinson
9. Drive, They Said -- Poems About Americans & Their Cars (edited by Kurt Brown)
10. Don Juan (Lord Byron)
11. Don't Be Afraid To Love -- Poems & Notes On Love, Friendship, Family & Women's Independence (Susan Polis Schutz)
12. Early 20th-Century Poetry
13. Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Selected Poems
14. Essential Poems (To Fall In Love With) (presented by Daisy Goodwin)
15. Famous Poems From Bygone Days (edited by Martin Gardner)
16. Gentle Harvest -- Poetic Moods & Memories Of A Woman's Life (Florence Jacobs)
17. Great Sonnets (edited by Paul Negri)
18. Immortal Poems (edited by Oscar Williams)
19. Keats -- The Complete Poems
20. Leaves Of Grass (Walt Whitman)
21. Limericks -- Over 550 Sometimes Polite, More Often Impolite, Poems To Read & Repeat! (Isaac Asimov & John Ciardi)
22. Lots Of Limericks (edited by Louis Untermeyer)
23. One-Year Book Of Poetry -- 365 Devotional Readings Based On Classic Christian Verse (compiled by Philip Comfort & Daniel Partner)
24. Poems That Touch The Heart (compiled by A. L. Alexander)
25. Poems To Cherish -- From The Salesian Collection (edited by Sara Tarascio)
26. Poetry Of The Romantics
27. Robert Frost -- Selected Poems
28. Six Centuries Of Great Poetry (edited by Robert Penn Warren & Albert Erskine)
29. Selected Poems Of Thomas Gray, Charles Churchill & William Cowper (edited by Katherine Turner)
30. The Bridge Of Faith -- From The Salesian Collection (edited by Sara Tarascio)
31. The Book Of 1,000 Poems
32. The Book Of 1,000 Poems -- The Classic Collection For Children
33. The Complete Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe
34. The Faber Book Of Comic Verse (edited by Michael Roberts)
35. The New Penguin Book Of Love Poetry (edited by Jon Stallworthy)
36. The Poems Of Shakespeare (edited by George Wyndham)
37. The Promise Of Hope -- From The Salesian Collection (edited by Jennifer Grimaldi)
38. The Random House Treasury Of Favourite Love Poems
39. The Sonnet: An Anthology -- A Comprehensive Selection Of British & American Sonnets From The Renaissance To The Present (edited by Robert M. Bender & Charles L. Squier)
40. The Wordsworth Book Of Limericks (edited by Linda Marsh)
41. Victorian Poetry
42. Whitney, Sidney & Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets (edited by Danielle Clarke)
43. William Blake -- Selected Poems

I have totally busted my budget for books this month. And I didn't even go to the Payless Books warehouse sale.

Apart from the book on plagiarism, the Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations was also a recent acquisition. In addition, I bought:

• The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination, by Robert Coles
• Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? (And Other Imponderables), by David Feldman
• Letter Perfect: The Marvellous History Of Our Alphabet From A To Z, by David Sacks
• The Life of Language: The Fascinating Ways Words Are Born, Live & Die, by Sol Steinmetz & Barbara Ann Kipfer
• Dictionary of Proverbs And Their Origins, by Linda and Roger Flavell
• Disconnected: Why Our Kids Are Turning Their Backs On Everything We Thought We Knew by Nick Barham
• Port Out, Starboard Home: The Fascinating Stories We Tell About The Words We Use by Michael Quinion
• Women, Sex, And Addiction by Charlotte Davis Kasl
• Subversive Thoughts, Authentic Passions: Finding Love Without Losing Your Self by Bonnie Kreps