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Most Read This Week Tagged "Words"

The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories)
A Chest Full of Words
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
No Nibbling!
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language
I Don't Want to Read This Book
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
The Wordy Book
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Words Books

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Dictionary of Lost Words
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Word Collector
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Frindle
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
Word Power Made Easy
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
The Story of English in 100 Words
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Lists

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithLady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. LawrenceLady Susan by Jane AustenLady of Quality by Georgette HeyerMy Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand
"Ladies" in the Title
1,095 books — 65 voters
Black Beauty by Anna SewellRed, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuistonThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Black and White
874 books — 40 voters

Words are our Sorcery by Karl WigginsBandersnatch by Diana Pavlac GlyerThe Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation by Jane StrausWrede on Writing by Patricia C. WredeThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
Books about Words
127 books — 22 voters
Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Dark Is Rising by Susan CooperThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinDead Until Dark by Charlaine HarrisI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Dark, Darker, Darkest
1,170 books — 45 voters

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William JoyceThe Library by Sarah StewartThe Monster at the End of this Book by Jon StoneLibrary Lion by Michelle KnudsenThe Right Word by Jen Bryant
Picture Books for the Bookish
437 books — 101 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Dutch House by Ann PatchettThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
52 Book Club 2025: #36 - Final Sentence Is Less Than 6 Words Long
175 books — 105 voters


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“ She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ”
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