• The Holy Bible
• The Worship Pastor, Zac Hicks
• 126 Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting, Robin Frederick
• The Music Producer’s Handbook, Bobby Owsinski
• The Craft of Christian Songwriting, Robert Sterling
• Singing for the Stars, Seth Riggs
• Successful Songwriting: A How-To Manual for Christian Songwriters,Tony Llewellyn
• Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV, Robin Frederick
• The Songwriters Workshop: Melody, Berklee Press
• Method Songwriting, Buddy Kaye
  Songwriting Sourcebook, Songs and Solos, Rikky Rooksby
  

• Mixing Secrets, Mike Senior
  Singing for the Stars, Seth Riggs
  
• Songwriting: a Complete Guide to the Craft, Stephen Citron
  
• The Art of Writing Great Lyrics, Pamela Oland
  
• The Complete Singer Songwriter, Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
  
• Songwriters Coloring Book, Bill Pere
  
• Tunesmith: inside the art of songwriting, Jimmy Webb
• Live Music Method, Tom Jackson

COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS

Most of these are recommended by Berklee College of Music in Boston:

• The Plain And Simple Guide To Music Publishing, Randall D. Wixen
• What They’ll Never Tell You About The Music Business, Eric Beall
• Making Money Making Music, Eric Beall
  
• The Billboard Guide To Writing And Producing Songs That Sell, Eric Beall
• Essential Guide to Rhyming, Pat Pattison
• Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure, Pat Pattison
• Melody in Songwriting, Jack Perricone
• The Songwriters Workshop, Jimmy Kachulis
• Popular Lyric Writing, Andrea Stolpe