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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Stories of Your Life and Others
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
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3.91 avg rating — 11,312 ratings
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
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How Fiction Works
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Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Pers
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Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
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4.23 avg rating — 4,195 ratings
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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
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Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
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Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod: Ein Wegweiser durch den Irrgarten der deutschen Sprache (Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod, #1)
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Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention
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4.06 avg rating — 2,342 ratings
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Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
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The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago
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La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
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Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods – The Essential Guide to Jewish Heritage, Survival, and European Folklore
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The Stories of English
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My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right
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How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
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Experiences in translation
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Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language
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The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
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Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction
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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
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The Story of French
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Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
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Japanese from Zero! 1: Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
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Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z
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