Words


The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language
The Keeper of Wild Words
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
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 Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories)
The Wordy Book
A Chest Full of Words
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
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
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
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Word Power Made Easy
The Story of English in 100 Words
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
496 books — 48 voters

The Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Best Titles Ever
305 books — 92 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

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 — 32 voters
Divergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsTwilight by Stephenie MeyerTalented by Sophie  DavisLegend by Marie Lu
Single Word Titles
844 books — 76 voters


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Annie Proulx
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Annie Proulx

Michael Ondaatje
She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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