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English Language Books
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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 — 44,456 ratings — published 1990
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,582 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,426 ratings — published 1918
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 122,295 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 — 12,589 ratings — published 2011
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,217 ratings — published 2008
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,438 ratings — published 2004
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,865,983 ratings — published 1813
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,160 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,913,785 ratings — published 1890
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 — 16,094 ratings — published 1994
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,901,464 ratings — published 1999
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,418 ratings — published 2013
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,570 ratings — published 2011
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,405 ratings — published 1986
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,550,551 ratings — published 1948
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 807 ratings — published
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,526,976 ratings — published 1997
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,500,675 ratings — published 1937
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,184,716 ratings — published 1847
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,625,021 ratings — published 1945
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,927,271 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 — 2,557 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,544,657 ratings — published 1998
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,953,476 ratings — published 1960
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,689,940 ratings — published 2005
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,463,833 ratings — published 1985
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,842,260 ratings — published 1590
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,349,220 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 — 5,295 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,144,435 ratings — published 2007
English Grammar in Use With Answers: Reference and Practice for Intermediate Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,984 ratings — published 1985
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,239,658 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 — 3,832,124 ratings — published 2003
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 — 4,407 ratings — published 1996
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,495,623 ratings — published 1897
A History of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 899 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,981,217 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,925,909 ratings — published 1951
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,017,369 ratings — published 2008
Word Power Made Easy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.42 — 9,196 ratings — published 1949
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,929 ratings — published 2000
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,431 ratings — published 2019
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,063 ratings — published 1926
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,329,607 ratings — published 1952
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,031,179 ratings — published 1623
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 880,257 ratings — published 1861
Advanced Grammar in Use With answers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 754 ratings — published 1999
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,904,111 ratings — published 2018
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,307,836 ratings — published 1911
“Who said the British empire was gone?! When I travel around the world and see and hear the English language everywhere, I know that the empire on which the sun never sets, is still alive. It never died. It continued to exist, but in a different shape, its language, English, which has become the global language.”
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“Be grateful, as the friendship of vowels and consonants gives birth to syllables and new words. That is the extent of your great power.”
— Judge Wisdomar, from Fairytale Clues”
― Fairytale Clues: Magic-filled Stories That Slip English Grammar into the Heart
— Judge Wisdomar, from Fairytale Clues”
― Fairytale Clues: Magic-filled Stories That Slip English Grammar into the Heart
