Mitchell Friedman's votes on the list Best Popular Language Books on Goodreads

Listopia > Mitchell Friedman's votes on the list Best Popular Language Books on Goodreads (100 Books)

1	Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney 4.12 avg rating — 4,931 ratings Mitchell rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally 3.73 avg rating — 1,056 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park by Jack Lynch 4.04 avg rating — 682 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity by Robert Lane Greene 3.86 avg rating — 683 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die by David Crystal 3.85 avg rating — 1,350 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 715 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language by Patricia T. O'Conner 3.80 avg rating — 622 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World by Nataly Kelly (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 785 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	A Little Book of Language by David Crystal 3.75 avg rating — 2,562 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Henry Watson Fowler 4.23 avg rating — 1,069 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language by Douglas R. Hofstadter 4.24 avg rating — 835 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 2,248 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Polyglot: How I Learn Languages by Kató Lomb 3.82 avg rating — 1,579 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese by Eri Banno 4.32 avg rating — 1,833 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	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 by Roy Blount Jr. 3.61 avg rating — 879 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	501 Spanish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged by Christopher Kendris 4.34 avg rating — 1,171 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	On Language by Noam Chomsky 3.81 avg rating — 1,088 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English by Roy Peter Clark 3.84 avg rating — 1,275 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky 3.84 avg rating — 921 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language by Deborah Fallows 3.63 avg rating — 2,218 ratings Mitchell rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	How to Do Things with Words by J.L. Austin 3.88 avg rating — 2,718 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	501 French Verbs (Barron's 501 French Verbs) by Christopher Kendris 4.26 avg rating — 656 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	An Introduction to Language by Victoria A. Fromkin 3.97 avg rating — 1,391 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language by Robert McCrum 3.27 avg rating — 621 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon 4.10 avg rating — 1,569 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky 3.84 avg rating — 1,336 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite by June Casagrande 3.82 avg rating — 943 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Lexicon by Max Barry (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 41,744 ratings Mitchell added it to to-read-unverified See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters by James W. Heisig 4.25 avg rating — 891 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky 3.75 avg rating — 2,486 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation by George Steiner 4.16 avg rating — 651 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 2,394 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings 3.70 avg rating — 551 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 4,403 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English by Lynne Murphy 3.93 avg rating — 1,246 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Babel by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 553,601 ratings Mitchell rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	1984 by George Orwell 4.21 avg rating — 5,809,873 ratings Mitchell rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke 4.01 avg rating — 4,591 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany 3.72 avg rating — 20,977 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco 3.96 avg rating — 872 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida 3.97 avg rating — 5,422 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	You Say Potato: A Book About Accents by Ben Crystal 3.87 avg rating — 655 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer 4.33 avg rating — 1,676 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right by Caroline Taggart (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 1,417 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation by Ammon Shea 3.65 avg rating — 692 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield 3.95 avg rating — 62,475 ratings Mitchell rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger 4.11 avg rating — 3,742 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Language, Truth and Logic by Alfred Jules Ayer 3.75 avg rating — 4,305 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner 4.61 avg rating — 1,075 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 4.34 avg rating — 2,626,711 ratings Mitchell rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach by Margarita Madrigal 4.28 avg rating — 1,067 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu 4.18 avg rating — 1,041 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds by Viorica Marian (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 1,175 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. II by Eri Banno 4.35 avg rating — 707 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	The Story of Spanish by Jean-Benoît Nadeau (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 645 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian by Ellen Jovin (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 1,498 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram 4.18 avg rating — 5,656 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1) by Suzette Haden Elgin really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,049 ratings Mitchell added it to to-read-verified See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts by Silvia Ferrara 3.45 avg rating — 775 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York by Ross Perlin 4.20 avg rating — 991 ratings Mitchell added it to to-read-verified See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Beowulf by Seamus Heaney (Translator) 3.51 avg rating — 358,804 ratings Mitchell added it to to-read-popular See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding by Paulien Cornelisse 3.67 avg rating — 11,299 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen 3.62 avg rating — 648 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris 3.62 avg rating — 2,202 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar by William D. Mounce 4.26 avg rating — 2,871 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year by Susie Dent 4.27 avg rating — 1,669 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods – The Essential Guide to Jewish Heritage, Survival, and European Folklore by Michael Wex 3.64 avg rating — 1,536 ratings Mitchell rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	The American Language by H.L. Mencken 4.12 avg rating — 554 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler 3.98 avg rating — 29,230 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth by J.P. Mallory 4.09 avg rating — 823 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You by Jay Rubin 4.18 avg rating — 707 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide by Josh Katz 4.19 avg rating — 1,337 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World by Yee-Lum Mak 4.21 avg rating — 2,167 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg 4.32 avg rating — 52,416 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage by John McWhorter 4.37 avg rating — 644 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttall (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 1,453 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word by Walter J. Ong 4.15 avg rating — 2,262 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	When in French: Love in a Second Language by Lauren Collins 3.51 avg rating — 3,739 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig 4.44 avg rating — 6,808 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind by Margalit Fox (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 545 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon 4.21 avg rating — 617 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hugoe Matthews 3.30 avg rating — 1,054 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 4,705 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	Language A to Z by John McWhorter 4.27 avg rating — 1,006 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	Language Families of the World by John McWhorter (Author, Narrator) 4.40 avg rating — 1,037 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari 3.74 avg rating — 823 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca by John McWhorter 4.16 avg rating — 1,250 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis 4.44 avg rating — 7,877 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal 4.32 avg rating — 808 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 1,209 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel L. Everett 3.46 avg rating — 1,063 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter 3.93 avg rating — 4,551 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams 4.01 avg rating — 204,926 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be by John McWhorter 3.89 avg rating — 813 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu 3.85 avg rating — 2,008 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language by Roger J. Kreuz (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 1,565 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson 4.12 avg rating — 522 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language by Adam Aleksic (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 5,788 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt 3.58 avg rating — 16,598 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
100	A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh 3.89 avg rating — 907 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars