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JOHN BARTLETT |
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PETER MARK ROGET |
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JOHN BARTLETT |
In The Book of Inside Information (1987), the Editors of Bottom Line Personal include a section entitled Twenty Top Reference Books. They write that "the most useful reference books, according to students at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism are" as follows:
| The Bible |
| Dictionary of Dates (Keller) |
| Dictionary of Miracles (Brewer) |
| Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Fowler) |
| Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Partridge) |
| Familiar Quotations (Bartlett) |
| Handy Book of Literary Curiosities (Walsh) |
| Harvard Dictionary of Music (Apel & Daniel) |
| Home Book of Verse (Stevenson) |
| National Geographic Atlas of the World |
| New Columbia Encyclopedia |
| Popular Fallacies: A Book of Common Errors (Ackerman) |
| Reader's Encyclopedia (Benet) |
| Roget's International Thesaurus |
| Webster's Biographical Dictionary |
| Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary |
| Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms |
| Webster's New Geographical Dictionary |
| Who's Who in America |
| The World Almanac |
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