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
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
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

Black Beauty by Anna SewellMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisMorality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall SmithAll Things Bright and Beautiful by James HerriotOf Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay
Beauty in the title
443 books — 31 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

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierThe Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly BlackThe Romance of the Forest by Ann RadcliffeThe Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede
"Forest" in the Title
439 books — 33 voters
A Twist in the Tale by Trudie CollinsTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Ride by Kostya KennedyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Two Word Titles
501 books — 50 voters


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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Rumi

Roald Dahl
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
Roald Dahl, Matilda

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