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
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
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
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
93 books — 117 voters

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid KemmererKingdom of the Cursed by Kerri ManiscalcoStorm Cursed by Patricia BriggsThe Ashes & the Star-Cursed King by Carissa BroadbentCursed Prince by C.N. Crawford
"Curse" or "Cursed" in the Title
321 books — 37 voters
Pet Sematary by Stephen  KingThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake ShangeAccomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary by Vivian CookEveryone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun
Deliberately Misspelt Titles
168 books — 27 voters


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Andrew Solomon
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Roald Dahl
Don't gobblefunk around with words. ...more
Roald Dahl, The BFG

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