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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 13,747 ratings — published 2014
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,754 ratings — published 1994
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as lang)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,694 ratings — published 2010
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as lang)
avg rating 4.09 — 755,927 ratings — published 1966
In Other Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 16,193 ratings — published 2015
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lang)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,350 ratings — published 2006
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 88,438 ratings — published 1918
An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as lang)
avg rating 3.97 — 37,640 ratings — published 2007
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,859 ratings — published 2019
Love & Misadventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 3.93 — 59,238 ratings — published 2013
Sea of Strangers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 3.67 — 14,791 ratings — published 2018
The Universe of Us (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 20,690 ratings — published 2016
Lullabies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 28,845 ratings — published 2014
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,092 ratings — published 2015
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,352 ratings — published 2013
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,353 ratings — published 1985
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,962 ratings — published 2003
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 4,177 ratings — published 2005
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 45,030 ratings — published 1990
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,633 ratings — published 2013
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,495 ratings — published 2019
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,527,919 ratings — published 1969
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 3.79 — 127,297 ratings — published 2021
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.14 — 325,771 ratings — published 1994
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.22 — 865,557 ratings — published 1862
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.16 — 648 ratings — published 1975
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,149 ratings — published 2005
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 3.45 — 1,054 ratings — published 2017
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,157,979 ratings — published 1866
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 968,077 ratings — published 1878
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,526,533 ratings — published 1942
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.46 — 725,199 ratings — published 1952
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,564 ratings — published 2017
War and Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 378,099 ratings — published 1868
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,602 ratings — published 2011
The Story of French (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,026 ratings — published 2002
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 3.44 — 236 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,331 ratings — published 2001
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 2,836 ratings — published 2011
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,529 ratings — published 2012
Politics and the English Language (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 9,280 ratings — published 1946
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 11,297 ratings — published 2007
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,568 ratings — published 1970
The Blue Fairy Book (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 10,522 ratings — published 1889
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
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avg rating 3.90 — 503 ratings — published 2025
Learning Chinese Characters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lang)
avg rating 3.98 — 190 ratings — published 2007
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 5,614 ratings — published 2025
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,648 ratings — published 2025
Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.29 — 147 ratings — published 2010
“You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.
It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.
From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.”
― Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam
It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.
From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.”
― Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam
“The German starts by claiming: 'German is off course ze best language. It is ze language off logik and philosophy, and can commuicate viz great clarity and precision even ze most complex ideas.' 'Boeff,' shrugs the Frenchman, 'but French, French, it ees ze language of lurve! In French, we can convey all ze subtletees of romance weez elegance and flair.”
― The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
― The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
