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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,717 ratings — published 1994
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,814 ratings — published 2019
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,800 ratings — published 2014
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,280 ratings — published 2007
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,136 ratings — published 2005
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,651 ratings — published 2010
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,910 ratings — published 1990
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,112 ratings — published 2019
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,319 ratings — published 2001
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,523 ratings — published 2017
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 124,023 ratings — published 1998
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,880 ratings — published 2003
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,157 ratings — published 2005
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.79 — 126,020 ratings — published 2021
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,342 ratings — published 2018
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,980 ratings — published 2016
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,894 ratings — published 2011
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 809 ratings — published 2011
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,309 ratings — published 2025
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,488 ratings — published 2021
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,593 ratings — published 2011
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,504 ratings — published 2012
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,939 ratings — published 1999
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 linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,079 ratings — published 2015
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,667 ratings — published 2014
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,259 ratings — published 2008
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,492 ratings — published 2012
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,082 ratings — published 1998
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 61,787 ratings — published 2001
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,801 ratings — published 1916
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,148 ratings — published 2007
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.70 — 5,385 ratings — published 2025
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 532,628 ratings — published 2022
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 966 ratings — published 2023
Politics and the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,202 ratings — published 1946
What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.60 — 946 ratings — published 2020
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,334 ratings — published 1968
Language Families of the World (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,024 ratings — published 2019
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 648 ratings — published 1975
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,173 ratings — published 2019
Language and Symbolic Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,026 ratings — published 1982
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 820 ratings — published 1989
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,790 ratings — published 2016
Vulgar Tongues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.12 — 143 ratings — published 2015
The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 480 ratings — published 2016
Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.29 — 202 ratings — published 2012
The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 462 ratings — published 2010
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,301 ratings — published 1994
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,343 ratings — published 2006
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,150 ratings — published 1980