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The Devil's Dictionary
by
Ambrose Bierce
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 4,421 ratings
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The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
by
Jean Chevalier
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 164 ratings
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A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
by
Francis D.K. Ching
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Tender Buttons
by
Gertrude Stein
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 2,264 ratings
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10,000 Dreams Interpreted: A Dictionary of Dreams
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 252 ratings
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A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake
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S. Foster Damon
4.48 of 5 stars 4.48 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions
by
Robert Todd Carroll
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined
by
Aaron Peckham
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Chambers Dictionary of Etymology
by
Robert K. Barnhart
4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words: Gathered from Numerous and Diverse Authoritative Sources
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Josefa Heifetz Byrne
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 49 ratings
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A Hole is to Dig
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Ruth Krauss
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 877 ratings
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The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit: An A to Z Lexicon of Empty, Enraging, and Just Plain Stupid Office Talk
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Lois Beckwith
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The New Devils Dictionary: Creepy Cliches and Sinister Synonyms
by
J.N. Williamson
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
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Gustave Flaubert
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 278 ratings
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The Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge
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David Kamp
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Excerpts From A Family Medical Dictionary
by
Rebecca Brown
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Film Snob*s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Filmological Knowledge
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David Kamp
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory
by
David Macey
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate
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Eugene Ehrlich
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Imaginationally: Michael's Lovable Fun of Dictionaries
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Michael Bernard Loggins
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge
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David Kamp
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life
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C.S. Lewis
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange, and Downright Bizarre
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Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author)
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Age of Wire and String
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Ben Marcus (Goodreads Author)
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 790 ratings
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Dictionary of the Khazars
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Milorad Pavić
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 1,989 ratings
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Open House for Butterflies
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Ruth Krauss
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
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Kevin Wilson
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 858 ratings
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The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon
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Karen Elizabeth Gordon
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 95 ratings
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A Whaler's Dictionary
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Dan Beachy-Quick
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Shallow Water Dictionary
by
John R. Stilgoe
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings
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