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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 — 12,590 ratings — published 2011
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 106,583 ratings — published 2003
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 194,345 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 — 122,316 ratings — published 1998
The Word Collector (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 5,019 ratings — published 2018
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,462 ratings — published 1990
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 6,706 ratings — published 2014
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,307 ratings — published 2017
Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,148 ratings — published 2016
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 6,301 ratings — published 2018
Frindle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 125,803 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 — 882 ratings — published 2008
Word Power Made Easy (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 9,197 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 — 4,075 ratings — published 2014
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,570 ratings — published 2011
The Dictionary Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,241 ratings — published
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 12,608 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 — 3,240 ratings — published 1984
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,430 ratings — published 1918
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 59,511 ratings — published 2001
Lexie the Word Wrangler (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 391 ratings — published 2017
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 308,714 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 — 2,557 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,908,902 ratings — published 2005
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,591 ratings — published 1994
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,365 ratings — published 2023
The Liar's Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.35 — 10,871 ratings — published 2020
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 28,753 ratings — published 2019
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 931 ratings — published 1870
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 9,432 ratings — published 2019
The Lost Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 6,671 ratings — published 2017
Big Words for Little Geniuses (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 557 ratings — published
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 7,421 ratings — published 2013
Max's Words (Max's Words, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 978 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 — 16,098 ratings — published 1994
L Is for Lollygag: Quirky Words for a Clever Tongue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 115 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 — 371 ratings — published
What a Wonderful Word: A Collection of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 378 ratings — published 2018
The Very Inappropriate Word (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 605 ratings — published 2013
The Boy Who Loved Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 977 ratings — published 2006
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 112,047 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 — 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 — 3,273 ratings — published 2001
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 7,219 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 — 5,642 ratings — published 2002
An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 820 ratings — published 1968
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 320,996 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 — 1,680 ratings — published 2021
“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.”
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