I’ve been doing this review process for almost a year. The first post was back in June 2020. In that time I’ve reviewed just less than 100 books and mentioned a further 30 on the shelves. A friendly reader asked me to include an index so here we go:
| Book | Rating | Type | WAWAW |
| Elements of Style | keep | How to English | 1 |
| The Transitive Vampire | keep | How to English | 1 |
| The well-tempered sentence | keep | How to English | 1 |
| Complete Plain words | discard | How to English | 2 |
| Sin and Syntax | keep | How to English | 2 |
| Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch | keep | How to English | 2 |
| Exercises in Style | keep | How to English | 3 |
| Contemporary Essays in Style | discard | How to English | 3 |
| The Anatomy of Prose | discard | How to English | 3 |
| On Writing Well | discard | How to English | 3 |
| The Strategy of Style | keep | How to English | 3 |
| Style | keep | How to English | 3 |
| How to write a sentence | keep | How to English | 4 |
| Several Short Sentences about Writing | keep | How to English | 4 |
| Building Great Sentences | keep | How to English | 4 |
| Eloquence | keep | How to English | 4 |
| Metaphors we live by | discard | How to English | 5 |
| Introducing Metaphor | discard | How to English | 5 |
| Poetic Diction | discard | How to English | 5 |
| History in English Words | discard | How to English | 5 |
| Poetry in the Making | keep | Poetry | 6 |
| How to be a Poet | keep | Poetry | 6 |
| The Poet’s Handbook | discard | Poetry | 6 |
| The Ode less travelled | keep | Poetry | 6 |
| Reading Like a Writer | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 7 |
| Understanding Novels | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 7 |
| The Bestseller Code | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 8 |
| Understanding Ficton | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 8 |
| The Making of a Story | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 9 |
| Aspects of the Novel | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 9 |
| Classical Literary Criticism | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 9 |
| Writing in the Dark | keep | Nuts & Bolts | a slight detour |
| Writing Horror Fiction | discard | Nuts & Bolts | a slight detour |
| How to write a CYOA book | discard | Nuts & Bolts | a slight detour |
| The Art of Editing | keep | Nuts & Bolts | a slight detour |
| Techniques of the Selling Writer | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 10 |
| Writing 21st Century Fiction | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 10 |
| The Organised Writer | keep | Golden Parachutes | 10 |
| Writing Interactive Fiction | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 10 |
| The Emotional Craft of Fiction | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 11 |
| Save the Cat writes a novel | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 11 |
| release the bats | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 11 |
| Monkeys with Typewriters | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 12 |
| Consider this | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 13 |
| The art of subtext | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 13 |
| The art of description | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 13 |
| The art of character | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 13 |
| Creating characters | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 13 |
| Dialogue | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 15 |
| The Writer’s Journey | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 14 |
| Story | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 14 |
| Damn Fine Story | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 14 |
| Narrative Design | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 14 |
| Meander, Spiral, Explode | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 15 |
| Story Trumps Structure | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 15 |
| Becoming a Writer | discard | On Mount Olympus | 15 |
| If you want to write | keep | On Mount Olympus | 15 |
| The writing Life | keep | On Mount Olympus | 15 |
| How to be your own literary agent | keep | Golden Parachutes | 15 |
| Editors on Editing | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 15 |
| Out on the wire | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 15 |
| Creating Short Fiction | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 16 |
| Writing Down the Bones | discard | On Mount Olympus | 16 |
| Bird by Bird | discard | On Mount Olympus | 16 |
| On Becoming a Novelist | discard | On Mount Olympus | 16 |
| The Art of Fiction | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 16 |
| Word Work | keep | On Mount Olympus | 17 |
| The writers book of doubt | keep | On Mount Olympus | 17 |
| How to write SF&F | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 18 |
| How to write tales of horror, F &SF | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 18 |
| Writers workshop of horror | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 18 |
| Where Nightmares come from | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 18 |
| Environmental & Nature writing | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 18 |
| Pocket Workshop | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 19 |
| The 38 most common mistakes | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 19 |
| The last draft | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 19 |
| Fiction first aid | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 19 |
| Revising fiction | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 19 |
| Self-editing for fiction writers | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 19 |
| What editors do | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 19 |
| Graphic Storytelliing and visual narrative | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 20 |
| comics and sequential art | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 20 |
| Understanding comics | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 20 |
| making comics | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 20 |
| Drawing Words & Writing Pictures | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 20 |
| Mastering comics | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 21 |
| Words for pictures | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 21 |
| the art of comic book writing | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 21 |
| writing comics | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 21 |
| The Art of Dramatic Writing | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 22 |
| The Dramatist’s Toolbox | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 22 |
| Solving your Script | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 22 |
| Screenplay | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 22 |
| The Screenwriter’s Workbook | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 22 |
| The Art of Plotting | keep | Nuts & Bolts | Pause |
| What If? | discard | Prompts and Exercises | 23 |
| How to write your first novel | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 24 |
| Points of View | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 24 |
| Improve your punctuation and grammar | discard | How to English | 24 |
| Before we get started | keep | On Mount Olympus | 24 |
| On Writing Fiction | keep | On Mount Olympus | 24 |
| Burning down the house | keep? | On Mount Olympus | 24 |
| The complete book of scriptwriting | keep? | Nuts & Bolts | 24 |
| Your story matters | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 24 |
| Writers Block and how to use it | keep | On Mount Olympus | 24 |
| The Writer as Artist | keep | Prompts and Exercises | 24 |
| How to write readable English | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 25 |
| The Writers mentor | keep | Nuts & Bolts | 25 |
| Deep writing | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 25 |
| Master Class | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 25 |
| Between the Lines | discard | Nuts & Bolts | 25 |
| The craft of the novel | discard | Mount Olympus | 25 |
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