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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 816 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,202 ratings — published 1990
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 786 times as language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,502 ratings — published 1994
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 704 times as language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,413 ratings — published 2003
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 565 times as language)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,052 ratings — published 2014
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 505 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,379 ratings — published 2010
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 437 times as language)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,817 ratings — published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 425 times as language)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,452 ratings — published 2011
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 416 times as language)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,496 ratings — published 2019
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 390 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,107 ratings — published 1918
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as language)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,092 ratings — published 2005
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as language)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,059 ratings — published 2005
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,188 ratings — published 2008
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 354 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,205 ratings — published 2007
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as language)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,246 ratings — published 2001
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 285 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,225 ratings — published 2017
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as language)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,985 ratings — published 2009
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,927 ratings — published 1980
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,016 ratings — published 1994
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as language)
avg rating 3.81 — 117,543 ratings — published 2021
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 245 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,683 ratings — published 2014
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as language)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,783 ratings — published 2014
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,147 ratings — published 2003
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as language)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,796 ratings — published 2011
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as language)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,969 ratings — published 2019
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as language)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,213 ratings — published 2014
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as language)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,186 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,031 ratings — published 2015
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as language)
avg rating 4.14 — 469,725 ratings — published 2022
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,403 ratings — published 1986
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,350 ratings — published 2013
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,801 ratings — published 1956
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,927 ratings — published 1999
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 157 times as language)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,951 ratings — published 2016
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,543 ratings — published 2011
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,962 ratings — published 2007
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,385 ratings — published 2019
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as language)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,434 ratings — published 2004
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 142 times as language)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,123 ratings — published 2004
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 140 times as language)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,309 ratings — published 2021
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as language)
avg rating 4.16 — 397 ratings — published 1943
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,448 ratings — published 2014
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,261 ratings — published 2003
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as language)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,481 ratings — published 2012
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as language)
avg rating 3.75 — 15,736 ratings — published 2015
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,092 ratings — published 2008
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 318,016 ratings — published 2000
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,056 ratings — published 2007
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 123 times as language)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,547 ratings — published 2012
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as language)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,333 ratings — published 2006
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as language)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,500 ratings — published 2025
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― Four Quartets
And next year's words await another voice.”
― Four Quartets
