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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 12,501 ratings — published 2011
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 106,480 ratings — published 2003
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 191,722 ratings — published 2020
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 121,990 ratings — published 1998
The Word Collector (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 5,005 ratings — published 2018
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,316 ratings — published 1990
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 6,703 ratings — published 2014
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,249 ratings — published 2017
Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,139 ratings — published 2016
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 6,178 ratings — published 2018
Frindle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 125,394 ratings — published 1996
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 881 ratings — published 2008
Word Power Made Easy (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 9,190 ratings — published 1949
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 4,053 ratings — published 2014
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,555 ratings — published 2011
The Dictionary Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,209 ratings — published
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 12,549 ratings — published 2019
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 3,236 ratings — published 1984
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,224 ratings — published 1918
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 58,835 ratings — published 2001
Lexie the Word Wrangler (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 388 ratings — published 2017
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 307,454 ratings — published 1961
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,553 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,889,641 ratings — published 2005
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,539 ratings — published 1994
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 1,334 ratings — published 2023
The Liar's Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.35 — 10,817 ratings — published 2020
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 28,244 ratings — published 2019
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 930 ratings — published 1870
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 9,399 ratings — published 2019
The Lost Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 6,618 ratings — published 2017
Big Words for Little Geniuses (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 554 ratings — published
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 7,371 ratings — published 2013
Max's Words (Max's Words, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 979 ratings — published 2006
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 111,381 ratings — published 1994
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 16,039 ratings — published 1994
L Is for Lollygag: Quirky Words for a Clever Tongue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 114 ratings — published 2008
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 319,111 ratings — published 2000
The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 367 ratings — published
What a Wonderful Word: A Collection of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 380 ratings — published 2018
The Very Inappropriate Word (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 604 ratings — published 2013
The Boy Who Loved Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 977 ratings — published 2006
The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 255 ratings — published 2000
A Certain "Je Ne Sais Quoi": The Origin of Foreign Words Used in English (Blackboard Books)
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avg rating 3.59 — 255 ratings — published 2009
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,258 ratings — published 2001
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 7,200 ratings — published 2008
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 5,631 ratings — published 2002
An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 819 ratings — published 1968
They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 318 ratings — published 1988
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories)
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avg rating 4.54 — 1,667 ratings — published 2021
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
