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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 — 12,699 ratings — published 2011
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 106,711 ratings — published 2003
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 196,858 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 — 122,935 ratings — published 1998
The Word Collector (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 5,038 ratings — published 2018
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,645 ratings — published 1990
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 6,708 ratings — published 2014
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,392 ratings — published 2017
Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,151 ratings — published 2016
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 6,408 ratings — published 2018
Frindle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 126,163 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 — 9,214 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 — 4,087 ratings — published 2014
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,576 ratings — published 2011
The Dictionary Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,272 ratings — published
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 12,674 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 — 3,243 ratings — published 1984
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,565 ratings — published 2012
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,621 ratings — published 1918
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 60,195 ratings — published 2001
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 931 ratings — published 1870
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 7,472 ratings — published 2013
Lexie the Word Wrangler (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 391 ratings — published 2017
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,926,915 ratings — published 2005
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,648 ratings — published 1994
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,394 ratings — published 2023
The Liar's Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.35 — 10,905 ratings — published 2020
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 29,236 ratings — published 2019
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 9,479 ratings — published 2019
The Lost Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 6,718 ratings — published 2017
Big Words for Little Geniuses (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 559 ratings — published
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 309,992 ratings — published 1961
Max's Words (Max's Words, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 982 ratings — published 2006
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 16,172 ratings — published 1994
L Is for Lollygag: Quirky Words for a Clever Tongue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 116 ratings — published 2008
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 — 379 ratings — published
What a Wonderful Word: A Collection of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 378 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 — 981 ratings — published 2006
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 112,668 ratings — published 1994
The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 256 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 — 256 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 — 3,283 ratings — published 2001
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 7,234 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 — 5,659 ratings — published 2002
An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 821 ratings — published 1968
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 322,730 ratings — published 2000
They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 317 ratings — published 1988
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories)
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avg rating 4.54 — 1,693 ratings — published 2021
“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― The Uses of Literature
― The Uses of Literature
