THE HOLY SHELF OF WRITERLY BOOKS AND INFORMATION AND STUFF

This question came up: What, exactly, is on the HOLY SHELF OF WRITERLY BOOKS AND INFORMATION AND STUFF? Well, here it is:

Gotham Writer’s Workshop-Fiction Writing
Screenplay- The Foundations of Screenwriting
Patterns of Poetry- An Encyclopedia of Forms
The Craft of Research
20 Master Plots (And How to Build Them)
Write Now!
10 Rules of Writing – Elmore Leonard (hilarious!)
Anybody Can Write (not necessarily true- but not a bad book)
Unusual and Most Popular Baby Names
Webster’s Rhyming Dictionary
Inside Writing: A Writer’s Workbook
The Marshall Plan Workbook
Writer’s Idea Book
Painless Grammar
How to Write a Children’s Book and Get It Published
The Creative Journal (get this!!!)
Conflict, Action and Suspense
Rules for Writers – Fourth Edition
Save the Cat! (screen writers- a must!)
What If? (awesome!)
You’re Lucky You’re Funny- How Life Becomes a Sit-com
The Creative Writer’s Companion
On Writing – “Big Steve” King (love it!)
Technical Writing – Third Edition
Writing Down the Bones (a must have!)
A Whack on the Side of the Head
A Writer’s Notebook
Strunk & White’s Elements of Style
The Merriam Webster Thesaurus
Rebel Without a Crew (film makers- get this!)
Screenplays
Gotham Writer’s Workshop- Writing Movies (awesome!)
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
WRITERS MARKET:
Novel & Short Story
Literary Agents
2009 Writer’s Market
Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s
Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s
A Writer’s Book of Days
1,100 Words You Need to Know

Not an extensive list- but remember, while reading this stuff is good, and can be helpful, if you're reading about writing, you're not writing. There are honestly four books on this list I continue to go back to:

Save the Cat!
What If?
Gotham Writer's Workshop- Writing Movies
and
On Writing (read it 4 times so far)

Not to say these are the "best" writing books, or that the others don't have something good to offer, just that they resound with ME and help me along in my work.

Also, Syd Field's SCREENPLAY- good, basic information.

What are your favorite writing books?

-Dev