Escapist Reads
Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinThe Study of Language by George YuleMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
35th out of 256 books — 224 voters
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstIn the Land of Invented Languages by Arika OkrentThe Unfolding of Language by Guy DeutscherThe Mother Tongue by Bill BrysonThrough the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher
Books for Language Lovers
13th out of 203 books — 74 voters

The Last Speakers by K. David HarrisonDon't Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel L. EverettPoems from the Edge of Extinction by Chris McCabeThe Translation of Dr Apelles by David TreuerWhen Languages Die by K. David Harrison
Books About Endangered Languages
1st out of 15 books — 7 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Wanderlust
1090th out of 1,091 books — 1,198 voters

Cultish by Amanda MontellSociolinguistic Patterns by William LabovThe Language of Life and Death by William LabovWordslut by Amanda MontellBecause Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
Introduction to Sociolinguistics
25th out of 34 books — 2 voters


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