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See also:
Best Books about Linguistics
Books for language lovers
Fun Linguistics Word book
Books used in my linguistics degree
Translation Theory Reading List
By Decade:
2010s
Related Lists By Topic:
All, Anthropology, Astronomy, Autobiography, Biography, Biology, Botany, Children, Classics, Climate, Computer Science, Economics, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Genetics, Geology, Geography, Graphic Novels, History, Historical Fiction, Horror, Judaism, Language, Manga, Medicine, Middle School, Military Science Fiction, Music, Mysteries, Nature, New Adult, Non-Fiction, Pagan, Pandemic, Philosophy, Picture Books, Poetry, Politics, Productivity, Psychology, Racism, Romance, Science, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Software Architecture, Space Opera, Steampunk, Travel, Young Adult
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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The Elements of Style
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
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Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
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The Story of Human Language
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The Stories of English
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Embassytown
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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Bird by Bird
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Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
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The Story of French
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
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The Story of English
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
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The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building
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The Study of Language
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Language in Thought and Action
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Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
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The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth
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The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
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Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
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Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind
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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own
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501 Spanish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
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Philosophical Investigations
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In Other Words
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Word Power Made Easy
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Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language
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Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
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Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
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Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana
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A Little Book of Language
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Language Myths
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
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The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
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How to Do Things with Words
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
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Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
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Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
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The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
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The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park
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Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese
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Serendipities: Language and Lunacy
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
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Metaphors We Live By
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Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
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The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
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Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language
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Politics and the English Language
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An Introduction to Language
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Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right
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Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z
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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
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The following books were removed due to not having 40 or more shelving as language:26 A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
23 The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
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<2 Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer
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