Words


Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories)
A Chest Full of Words
The Wordy Book
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
No Nibbling!
I Don't Want to Read This Book
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 Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
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
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own M... by Catherynne M. ValenteThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterAlice in Wonderland by Jane CarruthThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Books that Love Words
94 books — 118 voters
Viciously Yours by Jamie Applegate HunterBlood, Steel and Reputation by James    GaultHeretical Fishing by Haylock JobsonBeing a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For by Sara PascoeThe Three Witches and the Master by Max Nowaz
All Sorts Favourites
1,583 books — 1,459 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
Neverwhere by Neil GaimanSuperfudge by Judy BlumeGreenwitch by Susan CooperStargirl by Jerry SpinelliEventown by Corey Ann Haydu
Two Words Into One
383 books — 24 voters

Kept by the Mountain Man by Gemma WeirTaken By The Dragon by Jessica GraysonStalked by the Billionaire by Emma BrayProtected by the Wolf Prince by Jessica GraysonOwned by the Mountain Man by Gemma Weir
_____ by the _____
183 books — 11 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierGone Girl by Gillian FlynnDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Best Books of Secrets
240 books — 126 voters


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Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.
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