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English Language Books
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,041 ratings — published 1990
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,296 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,866 ratings — published 1918
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,499 ratings — published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,364 ratings — published 2011
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,171 ratings — published 2008
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,749,728 ratings — published 1813
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,431 ratings — published 2004
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,135 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,850,935 ratings — published 1890
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,310 ratings — published 2013
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,977 ratings — published 1994
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,790,770 ratings — published 1999
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,535 ratings — published 2011
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 803 ratings — published
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,018,521 ratings — published 1847
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,389,095 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,489,448 ratings — published 1945
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,423,018 ratings — published 1937
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,858,750 ratings — published 1818
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,534 ratings — published 2012
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,402 ratings — published 1986
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,297,691 ratings — published 1997
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,805,279 ratings — published 1590
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,304,178 ratings — published 1847
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,248 ratings — published 2003
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,818,382 ratings — published 1960
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,629,287 ratings — published 2005
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,392,557 ratings — published 1985
English Grammar in Use With Answers: Reference and Practice for Intermediate Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,973 ratings — published 1985
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,403 ratings — published 1996
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,461,059 ratings — published 1897
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,447,394 ratings — published 1998
A History of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 895 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,853,991 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,864,482 ratings — published 1951
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,080,146 ratings — published 2007
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,801,334 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,156,534 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,764,135 ratings — published 2003
Word Power Made Easy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.42 — 9,157 ratings — published 1949
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 315,999 ratings — published 2000
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,062 ratings — published 1926
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,298,965 ratings — published 1952
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,011,977 ratings — published 1623
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,173,571 ratings — published 1954
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 869,028 ratings — published 1861
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,359 ratings — published 2019
Advanced Grammar in Use With answers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 750 ratings — published 1999
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,286,207 ratings — published 1911
“Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.”
― Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English
― Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English
“I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
