Words


Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories, 1)
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
I Don't Want to Read This Book
A Chest Full of Words
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
The Wordy Book
No Nibbling!
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
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Word Collector
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World
Frindle
The Dictionary Story
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Word Power Made Easy
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
One Heartbeat by Jerry    JohnsonBombing Chicago by Jerry    JohnsonCRUISE by Jerry    JohnsonSEVEN by Jerry    JohnsonSix by Jerry    Johnson
Beauty in the title
478 books — 49 voters
Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph WolffHidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyA Guide to Running Your First Marathon by Doug LimbrickKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Non-Fiction read in 2017
485 books — 110 voters

Ramona and Her Father by Beverly ClearyHer Rock Star Mountain Man by Ella BraemeThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own M... by Catherynne M. ValenteHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoMonster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger
She Her or Hers in the title
268 books — 31 voters
Neverwhere by Neil GaimanSuperfudge by Judy BlumeGreenwitch by Susan CooperStargirl by Jerry SpinelliMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Two Words Into One
389 books — 26 voters



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Lang Leav
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― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

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