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Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Intimacies
Misinterpretation
The Centre
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
The Colony
Sprache und Sein
1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary (Maysen Jar #2.5)
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
Wordhunter
Meter i sekundet
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Elements of Style
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Los Sangurimas by José de la CuadraHuasipungo by Jorge IcazaLas cruces sobre el agua by Joaquín Gallegos LaraUn hombre muerto a puntapiés by Pablo PalacioNefando by Mónica Ojeda
Ecuadorian Literature
319 books — 49 voters
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony DoerrThe Reading List by Sara Nisha AdamsThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigThe Sentence by Louise ErdrichThe Library by Bella Osborne
Staff Picks: Books About Books
31 books — 3 voters

Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerThe Study of Language by George YuleAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
246 books — 220 voters
BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstIn the Land of Invented Languages by Arika OkrentThe Unfolding of Language by Guy DeutscherThe Mother Tongue by Bill BrysonThrough the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher
Books for Language Lovers
197 books — 71 voters

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John             LewisEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Non-Fiction read in 2017
474 books — 82 voters
Como agua para chocolate by Laura Esquivel10 años con Mafalda by QuinoAbcalia, El Viaje de los Sueños by Ricardo Roque Mateos20 poemas de amor y una canción desesperada - Antología nerud... by Pablo NerudaEl principe de la Niebla by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Books in Spanish for Spanish Learners
136 books — 153 voters


Patrick Rothfuss
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

Stephen Fry
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 sta ...more
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