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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 812 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 43,781 ratings — published 1990
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 779 times as language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,368 ratings — published 1994
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 703 times as language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,164 ratings — published 2003
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 544 times as language)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,556 ratings — published 2014
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 500 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,254 ratings — published 2010
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 432 times as language)
avg rating 3.84 — 120,984 ratings — published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 416 times as language)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,190 ratings — published 2011
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 413 times as language)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,333 ratings — published 2019
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 390 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,499 ratings — published 1918
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as language)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,062 ratings — published 2005
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 357 times as language)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,012 ratings — published 2005
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 348 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,166 ratings — published 2007
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,132 ratings — published 2008
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as language)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,198 ratings — published 2001
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as language)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,103 ratings — published 2017
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 280 times as language)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,958 ratings — published 2009
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,870 ratings — published 1994
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,785 ratings — published 1980
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as language)
avg rating 3.81 — 111,729 ratings — published 2021
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 244 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,601 ratings — published 2014
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as language)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,736 ratings — published 2014
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,110 ratings — published 2003
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 215 times as language)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,772 ratings — published 2011
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as language)
avg rating 4.24 — 26,558 ratings — published 2019
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as language)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,119 ratings — published 2014
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as language)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,088 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,997 ratings — published 2015
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,391 ratings — published 1986
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,219 ratings — published 2013
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,789 ratings — published 1956
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as language)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,920 ratings — published 1999
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as language)
avg rating 4.16 — 419,893 ratings — published 2022
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 153 times as language)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,927 ratings — published 2016
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,520 ratings — published 2011
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,830 ratings — published 2007
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,287 ratings — published 2019
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as language)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,425 ratings — published 2004
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 140 times as language)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,079 ratings — published 2004
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 137 times as language)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,188 ratings — published 2021
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 388 ratings — published 1943
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as language)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,477 ratings — published 2012
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,420 ratings — published 2014
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,229 ratings — published 2003
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 312,536 ratings — published 2000
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as language)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,966 ratings — published 2008
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as language)
avg rating 3.75 — 15,472 ratings — published 2015
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,052 ratings — published 2007
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as language)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,313 ratings — published 2006
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 118 times as language)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,512 ratings — published 2012
Embassytown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as language)
avg rating 3.90 — 34,157 ratings — published 2011
“I like you; your eyes are full of language."
[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”
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[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”
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“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
