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English Language Books
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,067 ratings — published 1990
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,313 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,902 ratings — published 1918
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,546 ratings — published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,378 ratings — published 2011
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,176 ratings — published 2008
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,755,523 ratings — published 1813
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,432 ratings — published 2004
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,138 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,854,303 ratings — published 1890
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,319 ratings — published 2013
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,981 ratings — published 1994
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,796,346 ratings — published 1999
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,535 ratings — published 2011
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 804 ratings — published
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,022,222 ratings — published 1847
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,397,157 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,496,578 ratings — published 1945
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,426,723 ratings — published 1937
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,863,541 ratings — published 1818
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 — 2,537 ratings — published 2012
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,401 ratings — published 1986
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,807,189 ratings — published 1590
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,306,459 ratings — published 1847
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,250 ratings — published 2003
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,825,023 ratings — published 1960
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,632,539 ratings — published 2005
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,395,923 ratings — published 1985
English Grammar in Use With Answers: Reference and Practice for Intermediate Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,973 ratings — published 1985
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 — 4,404 ratings — published 1996
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,463,209 ratings — published 1897
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,309,457 ratings — published 1997
A History of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 895 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,860,503 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,867,699 ratings — published 1951
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,083,562 ratings — published 2007
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,812,123 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,160,742 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,767,674 ratings — published 2003
Word Power Made Easy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.42 — 9,160 ratings — published 1949
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 316,293 ratings — published 2000
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,062 ratings — published 1926
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,300,672 ratings — published 1952
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,013,076 ratings — published 1623
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,176,489 ratings — published 1954
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 869,684 ratings — published 1861
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,452,421 ratings — published 1998
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,362 ratings — published 2019
Advanced Grammar in Use With answers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.19 — 751 ratings — published 1999
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,287,327 ratings — published 1911
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“Some 40 per cent of the 15,000 words in Shakespeare’s works were of French origin. The same percentage can be found in the current English version of the Bible.
Évidemment, I make no bones about that. This is a book written in bad faith. It’s a French book. So (it is) arrogant.
English, full of French, Norman and Latin, is more of a Romance language than a Germanic one. Its Saxon backbone is clothed in a luxuriant and precious Roman flesh.”
― La langue anglaise n'existe pas: C'est du français mal prononcé
Évidemment, I make no bones about that. This is a book written in bad faith. It’s a French book. So (it is) arrogant.
English, full of French, Norman and Latin, is more of a Romance language than a Germanic one. Its Saxon backbone is clothed in a luxuriant and precious Roman flesh.”
― La langue anglaise n'existe pas: C'est du français mal prononcé
