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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 815 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,103 ratings — published 1990
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 786 times as language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,486 ratings — published 1994
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 703 times as language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,352 ratings — published 2003
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 561 times as language)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,971 ratings — published 2014
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 505 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,356 ratings — published 2010
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 436 times as language)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,621 ratings — published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 421 times as language)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,400 ratings — published 2011
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 414 times as language)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,467 ratings — published 2019
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 390 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,973 ratings — published 1918
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as language)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,085 ratings — published 2005
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as language)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,051 ratings — published 2005
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 353 times as language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,182 ratings — published 2008
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 350 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,201 ratings — published 2007
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as language)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,235 ratings — published 2001
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 285 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,209 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 283 times as language)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,983 ratings — published 2009
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,910 ratings — published 1980
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,989 ratings — published 1994
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 258 times as language)
avg rating 3.81 — 116,400 ratings — published 2021
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 244 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,666 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 232 times as language)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,780 ratings — published 2014
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,143 ratings — published 2003
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as language)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,791 ratings — published 2011
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as language)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,702 ratings — published 2019
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as language)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,203 ratings — published 2014
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as language)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,172 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 178 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,027 ratings — published 2015
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as language)
avg rating 4.15 — 460,715 ratings — published 2022
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,404 ratings — published 1986
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,329 ratings — published 2013
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,800 ratings — published 1956
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,927 ratings — published 1999
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,536 ratings — published 2011
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 156 times as language)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,947 ratings — published 2016
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,936 ratings — published 2007
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,374 ratings — published 2019
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as language)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,432 ratings — published 2004
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 142 times as language)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,115 ratings — published 2004
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 141 times as language)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,286 ratings — published 2021
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,447 ratings — published 2014
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as language)
avg rating 4.17 — 396 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 — 1,480 ratings — published 2012
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,255 ratings — published 2003
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as language)
avg rating 3.74 — 15,681 ratings — published 2015
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,063 ratings — published 2008
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 316,848 ratings — published 2000
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,055 ratings — published 2007
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 123 times as language)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,539 ratings — published 2012
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as language)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,329 ratings — published 2006
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as language)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,264 ratings — published 2025
“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
