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
Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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
A Twist in the Tale by Trudie CollinsTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonThe Ride by Kostya KennedyWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Two Word Titles
537 books — 61 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
308 books — 96 voters

Divergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsTwilight by Stephenie MeyerTalented by Sophie  DavisLegend by Marie Lu
Single Word Titles
843 books — 75 voters

Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality by Elizabeth EulbergThe Empty Glass by J.I. BakerMy Hundred Lovers by Susan  JohnsonThe Prophet Murders by Mehmet Murat SomerCherry by Lindsey Rosin
Written in Lipstick
35 books — 5 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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Annie Dillard
“ She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

Andrew Solomon
“ I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. ”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

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