Ask HN: Any great books about technical writing?

Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance is a classic, written by a technical writer, and touches on the subject at some length.

The Elements of Style by Strunk and White is a short book of "rules" about style

Books like Strunk & White's Elements of Style are good resources for putting together good sentences.

and the classic "Elements of Style"

I recommend going through The Elements of Style

Williams and Colomb's Style: Toward Clarity and Grace

Strunk & White's The Elements of Style is a classic.

Since nobody has mentioned it yet, for charts and graphs there's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte

Put them all in a room and play On Writing Well by William Zinsser.

right on top of the list is the C programming language closely followed by anything written by Brian Kernighan.

On Writing Well, The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser would be a very good read

Just for reference, here is a classic about writing in general

The Minto Pyramid Principle is what you're looking for

I've use this book countless times.

Second this recommendation. Very dense with lots of useful recommendations.

I liked the approach of Pinker's book "A Sense of Style"

I recommend Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style.

Not a book on technical writing per se, but Writing Without Bullshit

I found "Writing Without Bullshit" helpful.

David Beer & David McMurrey, A Guide to Writing as an Engineer

C4E - Communication for Engineers.