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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 12,948 ratings — published 2011
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as words)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,940 ratings — published 2003
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as words)
avg rating 4.01 — 202,645 ratings — published 2020
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as words)
avg rating 3.84 — 124,277 ratings — published 1998
The Word Collector (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 5,120 ratings — published 2018
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,983 ratings — published 1990
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as words)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,711 ratings — published 2014
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,547 ratings — published 2017
Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,162 ratings — published 2016
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 6,665 ratings — published 2018
Frindle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 126,980 ratings — published 1996
The Dictionary Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,324 ratings — published
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 12,843 ratings — published 2019
Word Power Made Easy (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 9,272 ratings — published 1949
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 4,134 ratings — published 2014
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,598 ratings — published 2011
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as words)
avg rating 3.61 — 880 ratings — published 2008
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as words)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,257 ratings — published 1984
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 62,218 ratings — published 2001
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,588 ratings — published 2012
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,744 ratings — published 1994
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 88,353 ratings — published 1918
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 933 ratings — published 1870
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 7,604 ratings — published 2013
Lexie the Word Wrangler (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 392 ratings — published 2017
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,973,272 ratings — published 2005
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as words)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,436 ratings — published 2023
The Liar's Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.35 — 11,007 ratings — published 2020
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as words)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,346 ratings — published 2019
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as words)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,575 ratings — published 2019
The Lost Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as words)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,898 ratings — published 2017
Big Words for Little Geniuses (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 564 ratings — published
Max's Words (Max's Words, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as words)
avg rating 4.18 — 986 ratings — published 2006
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as words)
avg rating 4.24 — 114,796 ratings — published 1994
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as words)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,325 ratings — published 1994
L Is for Lollygag: Quirky Words for a Clever Tongue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as words)
avg rating 4.34 — 116 ratings — published 2008
The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 388 ratings — published
What a Wonderful Word: A Collection of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 387 ratings — published 2018
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 313,168 ratings — published 1961
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 6 times as words)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,018 ratings — published 2009
The Very Inappropriate Word (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as words)
avg rating 4.08 — 609 ratings — published 2013
The Boy Who Loved Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as words)
avg rating 4.01 — 987 ratings — published 2006
The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 254 ratings — published 2000
A Certain "Je Ne Sais Quoi": The Origin of Foreign Words Used in English (Blackboard Books)
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avg rating 3.60 — 257 ratings — published 2009
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 6 times as words)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,323 ratings — published 2001
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 7,268 ratings — published 2008
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as words)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,685 ratings — published 2002
An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 829 ratings — published 1968
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 327,280 ratings — published 2002
The Wombats Go Wild for Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as words)
avg rating 4.18 — 206 ratings — published 2025
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― The Living
― The Living
“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
