Martha Barnette, the host of public radio's A Way With Words, recommends these books on language, written by some of her favorite guests on the show:

Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods by Michael Wex

Word Origins ... and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone by Anatoly Liberman

Crossworld: One Man's Journey into America's Crossword Obsession by Marc Romano

Do You Speak American? by Robert MacNeil and William Cran

And one more by her predecessor on the show:

The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations by Charles Harrington Elster

Want to conjure more powerful poetry, vivid verse or delectable doggerel? These books on writing poetry can help:

A Poetry Handbook

The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop

Writing Poetry

The website World Hum, an online magazine "dedicated to exploring travel in all its facets," lists their picks for the "top 30 travel books of all time." Click here to read the entire list. The following are a few of our favorite literary travel books that they mention:

The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

Road Fever by Tim Cahill

All the Wrong Places by James Fenton

Garr Reynolds, the author of a terrific blog on communicating through presentations called Presentation Zen, posted a list of some of his favorite reads on the subject. But he says, "ironically, the books are not about presentations." The following are a few of his suggestions. To read the entire list please click here.

The Zen of Creativity

If You Want to Write

The Laws of Simplicity

A Whole New Mind

Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle board of directors, lists its members' favorite books of 2006. Critic Bruce Allen talks about his:

"The one book of 2006 that I would urge readers not to miss is Edward P. Jones's second short story collection All Aunt Hagar's Children. It's easy to lose track of Jones, who publishes so infrequently. But his first collection Lost in the City and Pulitzer-winning novel The Known World are genuine classics: richly detailed, brilliantly imagined explorations of Afro-American life, both as history and as images of the here and now, that are unsurpassed in our fiction."

To read about more books, check out the website here.

Want to get the message across to get the revenue in? Professional copywriter Dianna Huff writes the Marcom Writer Blog, a website about marketing communications, copywriting and related topics. Here are some of the books she recommends:

Cashing In With Content by David Meerman Scott

Words that Sell by Richard Bayan

The Corporate Blogging Book by Debbie Weil

Writing White Papers by Michael A. Stelzner