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 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
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
1,517 books — 1,280 voters

Emma by Jane AustenDune by Frank HerbertKate by Tate JamesFake by Tate JamesLiar by Tate James
It is a four letter word......
342 books — 36 voters
Divergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsTwilight by Stephenie MeyerTalented by Sophie  DavisLegend by Marie Lu
Single Word Titles
844 books — 76 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
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 — 41 voters


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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Rumi

Anne Bradstreet
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
Anne Bradstreet

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