Ern's votes on the list Best Popular Language Books on Goodreads

Listopia > Ern's votes on the list Best Popular Language Books on Goodreads (52 Books)

1	How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel L. Everett 3.46 avg rating — 1,063 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 1,203 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal 4.32 avg rating — 808 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca by John McWhorter 4.16 avg rating — 1,249 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari 3.74 avg rating — 822 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Language Families of the World by John McWhorter (Author, Narrator) 4.40 avg rating — 1,038 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Language A to Z by John McWhorter 4.27 avg rating — 1,005 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 4,689 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hugoe Matthews 3.30 avg rating — 1,052 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon 4.20 avg rating — 617 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind by Margalit Fox (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 545 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig 4.44 avg rating — 6,786 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	When in French: Love in a Second Language by Lauren Collins 3.51 avg rating — 3,737 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word by Walter J. Ong 4.15 avg rating — 2,256 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttall (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 1,451 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage by John McWhorter 4.37 avg rating — 643 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg 4.32 avg rating — 52,311 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World by Yee-Lum Mak 4.21 avg rating — 2,167 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You by Jay Rubin 4.18 avg rating — 706 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler 3.98 avg rating — 29,156 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods – The Essential Guide to Jewish Heritage, Survival, and European Folklore by Michael Wex 3.64 avg rating — 1,535 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year by Susie Dent 4.27 avg rating — 1,663 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar by William D. Mounce 4.26 avg rating — 2,870 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris 3.63 avg rating — 2,201 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen 3.62 avg rating — 648 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding by Paulien Cornelisse 3.67 avg rating — 11,140 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Beowulf by Seamus Heaney (Translator) 3.51 avg rating — 358,382 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York by Ross Perlin 4.20 avg rating — 987 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts by Silvia Ferrara 3.45 avg rating — 774 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1) by Suzette Haden Elgin really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,033 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram 4.18 avg rating — 5,645 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian by Ellen Jovin (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 1,492 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Story of Spanish by Jean-Benoît Nadeau (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 645 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. II by Eri Banno 4.35 avg rating — 707 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds by Viorica Marian (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 1,170 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu 4.18 avg rating — 1,040 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach by Margarita Madrigal 4.28 avg rating — 1,064 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 4.34 avg rating — 2,622,143 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner 4.61 avg rating — 1,076 ratings Ern added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Language, Truth and Logic by Alfred Jules Ayer 3.75 avg rating — 4,302 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger 4.11 avg rating — 3,739 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield 3.95 avg rating — 62,473 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation by Ammon Shea 3.65 avg rating — 691 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right by Caroline Taggart (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 1,417 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer 4.33 avg rating — 1,674 ratings Ern added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	You Say Potato: A Book About Accents by Ben Crystal 3.88 avg rating — 656 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida 3.97 avg rating — 5,422 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco 3.96 avg rating — 871 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany 3.72 avg rating — 20,943 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke 4.01 avg rating — 4,588 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	1984 by George Orwell 4.21 avg rating — 5,798,416 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Babel by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 550,834 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars