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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as lang)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,150 ratings — published 2014
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as lang)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,541 ratings — published 1994
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as lang)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,405 ratings — published 2010
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as lang)
avg rating 4.09 — 732,125 ratings — published 1966
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lang)
avg rating 3.75 — 15,772 ratings — published 2015
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lang)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,334 ratings — published 2006
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lang)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,227 ratings — published 1918
An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as lang)
avg rating 3.97 — 37,267 ratings — published 2007
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,487,533 ratings — published 1969
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,550 ratings — published 2019
Love & Misadventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 3.93 — 58,555 ratings — published 2013
Sea of Strangers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 3.67 — 14,535 ratings — published 2018
The Universe of Us (Volume 4) (Lang Leav)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 4.05 — 20,407 ratings — published 2016
Lullabies (Volume 2) (Lang Leav)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 3.97 — 28,564 ratings — published 2014
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,037 ratings — published 2015
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,314 ratings — published 2013
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,316 ratings — published 1985
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,481 ratings — published 2003
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,069 ratings — published 2005
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lang)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,317 ratings — published 1990
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 3.80 — 118,650 ratings — published 2021
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.14 — 315,924 ratings — published 1994
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.21 — 845,646 ratings — published 1862
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.14 — 635 ratings — published 1975
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,097 ratings — published 2005
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 3.45 — 1,008 ratings — published 2017
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,088,311 ratings — published 1866
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.10 — 935,251 ratings — published 1878
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,412,851 ratings — published 1942
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.44 — 644,245 ratings — published 1952
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,250 ratings — published 2017
War and Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 367,038 ratings — published 1869
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,555 ratings — published 2011
The Story of French (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,005 ratings — published 2002
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 3.45 — 230 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,258 ratings — published 2001
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,799 ratings — published 2011
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,399 ratings — published 2012
Politics and the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,798 ratings — published 1946
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,219 ratings — published 2007
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,473 ratings — published 1970
The Blue Fairy Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lang)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,392 ratings — published 1889
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
by (shelved 2 times as lang)
avg rating 4.01 — 230 ratings — published 2025
Learning Chinese Characters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lang)
avg rating 3.98 — 189 ratings — published 2007
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lang)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,037 ratings — published 2025
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lang)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,728 ratings — published 2025
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lang)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,372 ratings — published 2013
Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lang)
avg rating 3.29 — 145 ratings — published 2010
Words Words Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lang)
avg rating 4.00 — 353 ratings — published 2000
“As I read the Qur’an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.”
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“You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.
It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.
From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.”
― Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam
It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.
From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.”
― Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam
