30 Best

Words Books

1

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

2

The Lost Words

3

500 Words You Should Know

4

The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English

5

Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World

6

Little Bird's Bad Word

7

The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language

8

Don't Dangle Your Participle

9

Where's the Baboon?

10

A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age

11

Accidence Will Happen: A Recovering Pedant's Guide to English Language and Style

12

The Best Punctuation Book, Period

13

The Plan

14

Last Night's Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

19

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus

20

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

21

Frindle

22

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

23

The Word Collector

24

Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World

25

Lexie the Word Wrangler

26

The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

27

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

28

Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players

29

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