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Code and Codex
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition (The Clarendon Lexicographers #1)
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Intimacies
The Language of Liars
Glyph
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
Hèhè
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
The Centre
Mother Tongue
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
The Colony
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
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
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Arguing with the Storm by Rhea TregebovThe Family Mashber by Der NisterPaper Bridges by Kadya MolodowskyThe Book of Paradise by Itzik MangerTevye the Milkman by Sholom Aleichem
Originally Written in Yiddish
57 books — 12 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George Orwell
Works of Pure Genius
772 books — 701 voters

Read and Speak Arabic for Beginners by Jane WightwickAlif Baa by Kristen BrustadFirst Arabic Reader bilingual for speakers of English by Saher Ahmed SalamaArabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar by Jane WightwickThe Arabic Alphabet by Nicholas Awde
Best books for learning Arabic
16 books — 19 voters
Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph WolffHidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyA Guide to Running Your First Marathon by Doug LimbrickKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Non-Fiction read in 2017
486 books — 111 voters


Markus Zusak
“ The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. ...more ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

George Carlin
“ Meow” means “woof” in cat. ”
― George Carlin

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Corpus Linguistics Reading Group @UMass Boston A reading group for applied linguistics students interested in reading and researching the topic…more
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Francophonie Rassemblons les lecteurs francophones Que vous soyez de France, de Belgique, de Suisse, du Québe…more
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Post-Slop Book Club Explore the impact of AI through books – old and new, fiction and non-fiction. A slow, low-press…more
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