Words


The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories)
A Chest Full of Words
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
No Nibbling!
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language
I Don't Want to Read This Book
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
The Wordy Book
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Dictionary of Lost Words
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Word Collector
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Frindle
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
Word Power Made Easy
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
The Story of English in 100 Words
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierThe Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly BlackThe Romance of the Forest by Ann RadcliffeThe Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede
"Forest" in the Title
439 books — 33 voters

Viciously Yours by Jamie Applegate HunterHeretical Fishing by Haylock JobsonBeing a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For by Sara PascoeThe Three Witches and the Master by Max NowazA Dead and Stormy Night by Steffanie Holmes
All Sorts Favourites
1,550 books — 1,294 voters
Divergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsTwilight by Stephenie MeyerTalented by Sophie  DavisLegend by Marie Lu
Single Word Titles
844 books — 76 voters

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid KemmererKingdom of the Cursed by Kerri ManiscalcoStorm Cursed by Patricia BriggsThe Ashes & the Star-Cursed King by Carissa BroadbentCursed Prince by C.N. Crawford
"Curse" or "Cursed" in the Title
321 books — 37 voters
Black Beauty by Anna SewellRed, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuistonThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Black and White
874 books — 40 voters


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F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

John Green
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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