Bartlett's

Awesome mapping of the English language. Cute quotes. I love that it is a taxonomy of terms rather than an alphabetical list of words with a set of synonyms - much more comprehensive.

This is my big Bible of thesauruses (thesauri?) on my shelf. It literally launched my magazine writing career as the "GET" guy, with over 100 published articles written with titles that use the word "get" in them in some way (guess where I found all those phrases?). I even wrote an article about that for WRITER'S DIGEST!!!