Language


Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
The Dandelion Diary: A Small Town Single Dad Romance (Maysen Jar)
Guilty by Definition (The Clarendon Lexicographers #1)
Intimacies
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Glyph
The Language of Liars
Misinterpretation
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
The Colony
Mother Tongue
The Centre
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Elements of Style
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstIn the Land of Invented Languages by Arika OkrentThe Unfolding of Language by Guy DeutscherThe Mother Tongue by Bill  BrysonThrough the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher
Books for Language Lovers
203 books — 74 voters

Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstI Don't Want to Forget This by Paulina Lam EsparzaOnce Upon a Lie by Michael R. FrenchWith Love, The Argentina Family by Mirta Ines TruppOlas by José Ramón Torres
Identity & Society
44 books — 62 voters

The Story of French by Jean-Benoît NadeauThe Power of Babel by John McWhorterThrough the Language Glass by Guy DeutscherThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerEmpires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler
Great books on language
6 books — 1 voter
Dämon Rausch by R.H. LaarssAlmas Delirantes by Luiz CebolaScience-Fiction-Pop-Art by Kai StellmannNudité by Louis de GraeveUne calligraphie des ombres - Les manuscrits d'Alejandra Piza... by Mariana Di Ció
Wrong Language Books
100 books — 1 voter


Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Rumi

Trevor Noah
Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, 'I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being ...more
Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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