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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,663 ratings — published 1994
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,694 ratings — published 1990
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,698 ratings — published 2019
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,240 ratings — published 2008
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,286 ratings — published 2001
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,560 ratings — published 2010
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,254 ratings — published 2007
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,757 ratings — published 2003
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.80 — 123,136 ratings — published 2021
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,747 ratings — published 2011
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,121 ratings — published 2005
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,120 ratings — published 2005
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 23 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,003 ratings — published 2009
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,067 ratings — published 1980
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,712 ratings — published 1916
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.89 — 806 ratings — published 2011
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 123,104 ratings — published 1998
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,340 ratings — published 2006
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 29,359 ratings — published 2019
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,749 ratings — published 2014
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,406 ratings — published 1986
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,936 ratings — published 1999
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,119 ratings — published 1987
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,066 ratings — published 2015
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,579 ratings — published 2011
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,815 ratings — published 2011
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,595 ratings — published 2025
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 13 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,163 ratings — published 2004
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 510,141 ratings — published 2022
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,416 ratings — published 2021
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,072 ratings — published 2007
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,492 ratings — published 2013
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,416 ratings — published 2017
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,078 ratings — published 1998
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,205 ratings — published 1994
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,690 ratings — published 1918
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,232 ratings — published 2016
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 11 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,967 ratings — published 2016
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,508 ratings — published 2014
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,445 ratings — published 2004
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,284 ratings — published 2018
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,484 ratings — published 2014
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,740 ratings — published 2013
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,177 ratings — published 2003
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,491 ratings — published 2019
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,208 ratings — published 2013
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 4.16 — 400 ratings — published 1943
The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.88 — 458 ratings — published 2010
Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.61 — 302 ratings — published 2008
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as language-linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 388 ratings — published 1991
