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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 45,147 ratings — published 1990
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 107,027 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,524 ratings — published 1918
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 124,854 ratings — published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,022 ratings — published 2011
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,287 ratings — published 2008
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,457 ratings — published 2004
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,034,079 ratings — published 1813
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,222 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,020,633 ratings — published 1890
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,662 ratings — published 2013
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,607 ratings — published 2011
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,388 ratings — published 1994
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,307,800 ratings — published 1847
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,074,681 ratings — published 1999
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,800,675 ratings — published 1949
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,417 ratings — published 1986
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,840,367 ratings — published 1945
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 808 ratings — published
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,020,446 ratings — published 1818
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,653,445 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,875,143 ratings — published 1997
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,594 ratings — published 2012
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,557,949 ratings — published 1897
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,357 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,693,935 ratings — published 1998
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,149,228 ratings — published 1960
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,796,062 ratings — published 2005
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,577,179 ratings — published 1985
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,898,697 ratings — published 1590
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,426,150 ratings — published 1847
English Grammar in Use With Answers: Reference and Practice for Intermediate Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,994 ratings — published 1985
A History of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 909 ratings — published 1951
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,026,471 ratings — published 1951
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,253,458 ratings — published 2007
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,323,507 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,374,783 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,946,963 ratings — published 2003
Word Power Made Easy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.42 — 9,284 ratings — published 1949
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,431 ratings — published 1996
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,615 ratings — published 2019
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,167,727 ratings — published 1925
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 329,263 ratings — published 2000
Advanced Grammar in Use With answers (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 753 ratings — published 1999
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,015,069 ratings — published 2018
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,069 ratings — published 1926
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,384,008 ratings — published 1952
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,060,151 ratings — published 1623
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 898,094 ratings — published 1861
Practical English Usage (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,444 ratings — published 1981
“Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.”
― Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English
― Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English
“It is as much about input – the conversation of imaginative men (women and children not excluded) has a rhythm, a phrase that follows a thought and precedes the development of further thought … try not to be a cunt.”
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