Language


Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition (The Clarendon Lexicographers #1)
Intimacies
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Glyph
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
The Language of Liars
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
The Colony
The Centre
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Misinterpretation
Wordhunter
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Mother Tongue
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
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstCloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony DoerrThe Reading List by Sara Nisha AdamsThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigThe Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Staff Picks: Books About Books
32 books — 14 voters
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos OzThe Blue Mountain by Meir ShalevPast Continuous by Yaakov ShabtaiSee Under by David GrossmanThe Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua
Translations from Hebrew
64 books — 26 voters

Los Sangurimas by José de la CuadraHuasipungo by Jorge IcazaLas cruces sobre el agua by Joaquín Gallegos LaraPelea de gallos by María Fernanda AmpueroUn hombre muerto a puntapiés by Pablo Palacio
Ecuadorian Literature
321 books — 53 voters

Language Disorders from Infancy Through Adolescence by Rhea PaulMotor Speech Disorders by Joseph R. DuffyCleft Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies by Ann W. KummerAnatomy & Physiology by J. Anthony SeikelManagement of Motor Speech Disorders in Children and Adults by Kathryn M. Yorkston
The Best Speech Pathology Textbooks
10 books — 6 voters
Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph WolffHidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannA Guide to Running Your First Marathon by Doug LimbrickBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Non-Fiction read in 2017
482 books — 105 voters


Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

John  Green
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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