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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 820 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 45,148 ratings — published 1990
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 800 times as language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,789 ratings — published 1994
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 705 times as language)
avg rating 3.87 — 107,026 ratings — published 2003
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 593 times as language)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,881 ratings — published 2014
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 519 times as language)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,723 ratings — published 2010
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 444 times as language)
avg rating 3.84 — 124,852 ratings — published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 436 times as language)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,022 ratings — published 2011
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 420 times as language)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,900 ratings — published 2019
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 393 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,522 ratings — published 1918
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 375 times as language)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,149 ratings — published 2005
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as language)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,190 ratings — published 2005
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,286 ratings — published 2008
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,342 ratings — published 2001
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 359 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,309 ratings — published 2007
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 292 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,592 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 289 times as language)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,016 ratings — published 2009
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,218 ratings — published 1980
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as language)
avg rating 3.79 — 128,174 ratings — published 2021
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,388 ratings — published 1994
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 251 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,826 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 233 times as language)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,931 ratings — published 2014
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as language)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,789 ratings — published 2019
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,222 ratings — published 2003
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as language)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,843 ratings — published 2011
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as language)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,394 ratings — published 2018
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as language)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,420 ratings — published 2014
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as language)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,874 ratings — published 2025
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as language)
avg rating 4.12 — 551,416 ratings — published 2022
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,097 ratings — published 2015
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,417 ratings — published 1986
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,660 ratings — published 2013
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,944 ratings — published 1999
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as language)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,607 ratings — published 2011
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as language)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,217 ratings — published 2007
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 161 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,994 ratings — published 2016
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as language)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,814 ratings — published 1956
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,615 ratings — published 2019
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 147 times as language)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,229 ratings — published 2004
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 147 times as language)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,543 ratings — published 2021
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as language)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,457 ratings — published 2004
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,505 ratings — published 2014
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as language)
avg rating 4.16 — 407 ratings — published 1943
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as language)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,520 ratings — published 2008
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,357 ratings — published 2003
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as language)
avg rating 3.74 — 16,252 ratings — published 2015
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,501 ratings — published 2012
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 329,240 ratings — published 2000
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 125 times as language)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,594 ratings — published 2012
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as language)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,350 ratings — published 2006
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,056 ratings — published 2007
“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
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“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
