Words


The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
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 Keeper of Wild Words
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
I Don't Want to Read This Book
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 Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories)
The Wordy Book
A Chest Full of Words
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
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
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
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Word Power Made Easy
The Story of English in 100 Words
The Wicked King by Holly BlackKings of Anarchy by Caroline PeckhamA Deal with the Elf King by Elise KovaBound to the Dark Elf King by Jessica GraysonBride of the Shadow King by Sylvia Mercedes
Romance Novels with King in the Title
253 books — 34 voters
Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality by Elizabeth EulbergThe Empty Glass by J.I. BakerMy Hundred Lovers by Susan  JohnsonNaked Came the Stranger by Penelope AsheThe Prophet Murders by Mehmet Murat Somer
Written in Lipstick
35 books — 5 voters

The Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Best Titles Ever
305 books — 92 voters
Neverwhere by Neil GaimanSuperfudge by Judy BlumeGreenwitch by Susan CooperStargirl by Jerry SpinelliEventown by Corey Ann Haydu
Two Words Into One
378 books — 23 voters

A Twist in the Tale by Trudie CollinsTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Ride by Kostya KennedyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Two Word Titles
496 books — 48 voters
Peter Pan by J.M. BarrieCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteBlack Beauty by Anna SewellOn Cue by Cristy WatsonEnder's Game by Orson Scott Card
With these two words - Part Two
731 books — 22 voters


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Patrick Rothfuss
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

Roald Dahl
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
Roald Dahl, Matilda

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