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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,813 ratings — published 1994
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,318 ratings — published 2007
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,924 ratings — published 2019
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,840 ratings — published 2014
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,151 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 — 7,738 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 — 45,192 ratings — published 1990
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,955 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 — 3,352 ratings — published 2001
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,603 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 — 125,086 ratings — published 1998
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 107,063 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 — 4,194 ratings — published 2005
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,017 ratings — published 2025
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.79 — 128,698 ratings — published 2021
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,412 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 4.13 — 1,995 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 — 13,047 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 3.89 — 812 ratings — published 2011
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.12 — 556,128 ratings — published 2022
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,561 ratings — published 2021
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,612 ratings — published 2011
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,567 ratings — published 2012
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,948 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 — 2,102 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 — 13,908 ratings — published 2014
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,297 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 — 1,502 ratings — published 2012
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,090 ratings — published 1998
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 63,398 ratings — published 2001
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,840 ratings — published 1916
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,544 ratings — published 2008
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 — 4,242 ratings — published 2007
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,844 ratings — published 2025
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.85 — 985 ratings — published 2023
Politics and the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,385 ratings — published 1946
What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.60 — 950 ratings — published 2020
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,336 ratings — published 1968
Language Families of the World (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,039 ratings — published 2019
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 652 ratings — published 1975
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,204 ratings — published 2019
Language and Symbolic Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,042 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 — 823 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 — 1,803 ratings — published 2016
Vulgar Tongues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.11 — 144 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 — 483 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 — 463 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 — 16,412 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 — 1,351 ratings — published 2006