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Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
Intimacies
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Misinterpretation
The Centre
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
The Colony
Sprache und Sein
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Wordhunter
Toward Eternity
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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 Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
The Power of the Socratic Classroom by Charles Ames FischerPedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireTo the Survivors by Robert UttaroAdvanced Grammar in Use With answers by Martin HewingsDecolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
The books that made me teach
23 books — 5 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 623 voters

Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds by Leslie UmbergerTorching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture by Archie GreenSouls Grown Deep Vol. 1 by William Arnett...i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces by Steve RodenHarry Smith by Andrew Perchuk
"Vernacular"
79 books — 2 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 LeeAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Works of Pure Genius
718 books — 572 voters
I Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldThirty Million Words by Dana SuskindHow to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele FaberThe Extended Mind by Annie Murphy PaulSincerely, Your Autistic Child by Autistic Women and Nonbinar...
Books for Speech Therapists
10 books — 8 voters


David Levithan
i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice to say 'bad-bye' or 'awful-bye' or 'couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye.' every time you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. well, i don't believe in that. i believe against that. ...more
David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Zadie Smith
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
Zadie Smith

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