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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 819 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,861 ratings — published 1990
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 793 times as language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,713 ratings — published 1994
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 706 times as language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,867 ratings — published 2003
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 585 times as language)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,625 ratings — published 2014
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 516 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,625 ratings — published 2010
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 438 times as language)
avg rating 3.84 — 123,797 ratings — published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 431 times as language)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,856 ratings — published 2011
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 416 times as language)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,796 ratings — published 2019
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 393 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,079 ratings — published 1918
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 376 times as language)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,132 ratings — published 2005
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 372 times as language)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,141 ratings — published 2005
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 362 times as language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,254 ratings — published 2008
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 356 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,281 ratings — published 2007
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 355 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,311 ratings — published 2001
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 289 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,495 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 287 times as language)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,014 ratings — published 2009
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,125 ratings — published 1980
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as language)
avg rating 3.79 — 125,247 ratings — published 2021
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,267 ratings — published 1994
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 247 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,789 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 234 times as language)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,877 ratings — published 2014
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,187 ratings — published 2003
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as language)
avg rating 4.22 — 29,919 ratings — published 2019
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as language)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,828 ratings — published 2011
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as language)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,325 ratings — published 2018
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 — 9,356 ratings — published 2014
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 526,974 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 182 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,074 ratings — published 2015
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,413 ratings — published 1986
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,551 ratings — published 2013
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as language)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,110 ratings — published 2025
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,816 ratings — published 1956
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,939 ratings — published 1999
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 160 times as language)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,980 ratings — published 2016
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,590 ratings — published 2011
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as language)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,128 ratings — published 2007
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,538 ratings — published 2019
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 147 times as language)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,471 ratings — published 2021
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 144 times as language)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,192 ratings — published 2004
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as language)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,450 ratings — published 2004
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as language)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,497 ratings — published 2014
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as language)
avg rating 4.16 — 401 ratings — published 1943
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as language)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,327 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 — 5,329 ratings — published 2003
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,492 ratings — published 2012
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,085 ratings — published 2015
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 325,499 ratings — published 2002
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 — 2,579 ratings — published 2012
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
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as language)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,342 ratings — published 2006
“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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“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the stair, a spluttering match held to a frosted pane, the warm wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy, the hulk of a charred Panzer, the underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl, cobwebs long since overrun by an old Wellington boot.”
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