32 Best

Language Books

1

On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing

2

The Upside of Falling Down

3

Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

4

The Idiot

5

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

6

In Other Words

7

The Word Collector

8

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

9

P is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever

10

Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

11

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

12

The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

13

Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

14

The Kingdom of Speech

15

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

16

Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World

17

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

18

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

19

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

20

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

21

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

22

The Elements of Style

23

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

24

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

25

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

26

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

27

Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

28

The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

29

The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

30

In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

31

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States