Languages


Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Wheelock's Latin
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Bad Science by Ben GoldacreAn Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCrackenThe Fires of Vesuvius by Mary BeardTraffic by Tom VanderbiltAudition by Barbara  Walters
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2008
73 books — 10 voters
The Lady in the Tower by Alison WeirGeorge, Nicholas and Wilhelm by M.J. CarterShadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer WorthBluets by Maggie NelsonFarewell to the East End by Jennifer Worth
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2009
70 books — 13 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Two Week Traveller by Matthew LightfootOut of the Cage by Matthew LightfootThe Holocaust Industry by Norman G. Finkelstein
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2000s
277 books — 33 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanAlive by Piers Paul ReadAll the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinThe Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1970s
251 books — 19 voters

Rosemary by Kate Clifford LarsonHow To Be a Tudor by Ruth GoodmanSPQR by Mary BeardThe Silk Roads by Peter FrankopanThe Witches by Stacy Schiff
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2015
182 books — 20 voters
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisI Need All the Friends I Can Get by Charles M. SchulzThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books for start to read in english
23 books — 2 voters

Suman Pokhrel
Before getting translated, a poem already gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the original language, and it again gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the target language.
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Alex Morritt
In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'. ...more
Alex Morritt, Lines & Lenses

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