15 Best Rhetoric Books
Goal: Find the best Rhetoric books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best rhetoric books" and study the top 4+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
15 Best Rhetoric Books
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A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms
by Richard A. Lanham
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
by Edward P. J. Corbett
A Rhetoric of Motives
by Kenneth Burke
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
by Thomas O. Sloane
Rhetorica ad Herennium
by Cicero
Thank You for Arguing
What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
by Jay Heinrichs
The Art of Rhetoric
by Aristotle
Made to Stick
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by Chip Heath
Also recommended by:
Brian Armstrong, Ev Williams, Andrew Wilkinson, Changpeng Zhao, Sahil Lavingia
Cicero
The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
by Anthony Everitt
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
by Ward Farnsworth
Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language
by Sister Miriam Joseph
The Elements of Eloquence
Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase
by Mark Forsyth
The Rhetorical Tradition
Readings from Classical Times to the Present
by Patricia Bizzell
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
by Hanif Abdurraqib
You Talkin' To Me?
Rhetoric from Aristotle to Trump and Beyond...
by Sam Leith
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