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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 817 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,353 ratings — published 1990
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 789 times as language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,554 ratings — published 1994
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 704 times as language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,505 ratings — published 2003
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 571 times as language)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,200 ratings — published 2014
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 511 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,419 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 — 122,062 ratings — published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 428 times as language)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,527 ratings — published 2011
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 415 times as language)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,562 ratings — published 2019
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 390 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,284 ratings — published 1918
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 370 times as language)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,102 ratings — published 2005
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as language)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,075 ratings — published 2005
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,204 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 — 11,229 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 353 times as language)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,266 ratings — published 2001
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 286 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,264 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 284 times as language)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,986 ratings — published 2009
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,977 ratings — published 1980
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 — 16,052 ratings — published 1994
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 261 times as language)
avg rating 3.80 — 119,145 ratings — published 2021
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 248 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,703 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 — 5,804 ratings — published 2014
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,155 ratings — published 2003
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as language)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,799 ratings — published 2011
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as language)
avg rating 4.23 — 28,376 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 — 9,244 ratings — published 2014
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as language)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,212 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 180 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,041 ratings — published 2015
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as language)
avg rating 4.14 — 482,029 ratings — published 2022
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,404 ratings — published 1986
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,803 ratings — published 1956
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,389 ratings — published 2013
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,931 ratings — published 1999
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 159 times as language)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,954 ratings — published 2016
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,559 ratings — published 2011
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,996 ratings — published 2007
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,403 ratings — published 2019
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 143 times as language)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,351 ratings — published 2021
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as language)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,435 ratings — published 2004
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 142 times as language)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,133 ratings — published 2004
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as language)
avg rating 4.17 — 395 ratings — published 1943
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,455 ratings — published 2014
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as language)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,125 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 — 5,282 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 — 1,482 ratings — published 2012
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 3.75 — 15,783 ratings — published 2015
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 319,568 ratings — published 2000
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,826 ratings — published 2025
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,056 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 — 2,553 ratings — published 2012
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as language)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,333 ratings — published 2006
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”
― Der blinde Mörder
― Der blinde Mörder
