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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition
Intimacies
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Misinterpretation
The Centre
Sprache und Sein
Meter i sekundet
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
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 Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds by Leslie UmbergerTorching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture by Archie GreenSouls Grown Deep Vol. 1 by William Arnett...i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces by Steve RodenHarry Smith by Andrew Perchuk
"Vernacular"
79 books — 2 voters
Read and Speak Arabic for Beginners by Jane WightwickAlif Baa by Kristen BrustadFirst Arabic Reader bilingual for speakers of English by Saher Ahmed SalamaArabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar by Jane WightwickThe Arabic Alphabet by Nicholas Awde
Best books for learning Arabic
17 books — 20 voters

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John             LewisEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Non-Fiction read in 2017
476 books — 83 voters
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

Wheelock's Latin by Frederic M. WheelockChomsky For Beginners by David CogswellText Structure by Nelly TinchevaThe Mother Tongue by Bill BrysonGoing Nucular by Geoffrey Nunberg
Linguistics
9 books — 4 voters
BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian 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
201 books — 73 voters


Maggie Stiefvater
It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought. ...more
Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

R.F. Kuang
English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.
R.F. Kuang, Babel

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