Words


Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
A Chest Full of Words
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
I Don't Want to Read This Book
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories)
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
No Nibbling!
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language
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
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William JoyceThe Library by Sarah StewartThe Monster at the End of this Book by Jon StoneLibrary Lion by Michelle KnudsenThe Right Word by Jen Bryant
Picture Books for the Bookish
456 books — 102 voters
Emma by Jane AustenDune by Frank HerbertKate by Tate JamesFake by Tate JamesLiar by Tate James
It is a four letter word......
344 books — 38 voters

Pet Sematary by Stephen  KingThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake ShangeAccomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary by Vivian CookEveryone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun
Deliberately Misspelt Titles
168 books — 27 voters
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithLady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. LawrenceLady Susan by Jane AustenLady of Quality by Georgette HeyerMy Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand
"Ladies" in the Title
1,096 books — 66 voters

Her Rock Star Mountain Man by Ella BraemeRamona and Her Father by Beverly ClearyHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoMonster, She Wrote by Lisa KrögerButting Heads With Her Mountain Man by Ella Braeme
She Her or Hers in the title
262 books — 27 voters
Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Dark Is Rising by Susan CooperThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinDead Until Dark by Charlaine HarrisI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Dark, Darker, Darkest
1,170 books — 45 voters


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