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I have read a lot of books and articles about writing over the years, but most of them have been so eminently forgettable that I could not tell you the names or authors. I liked and enjoyed Stephen King's On Writing mostly as a memoir and a look at the way he works/thinks, I can't say I found it all that helpful to my writing.
The most obviously useful book on writing that I own is a recent purchase: Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King. It's similar in nature to a lot of other books I've tried, but this one worked for me - fit with my way of thinking - so much better than anything else I had read in a very long time.
Most of the rest (that I have read) I would put down as being excellent for their purpose - procrastination machines that help us to avoid getting down to the job of actually writing and/or publishing - but not all that useful in terms of making us better or more successful writers. That doesn't mean they were not interesting in their own way, but interesting and useful are different things.
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