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Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
Intimacies
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Misinterpretation
The Centre
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
The Colony
Sprache und Sein
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Wordhunter
Toward Eternity
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Elements of Style
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerThe Study of Language by George YuleAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
246 books — 221 voters
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John             LewisEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Non-Fiction read in 2017
476 books — 83 voters

Como agua para chocolate by Laura Esquivel10 años con Mafalda by QuinoAbcalia, El Viaje de los Sueños by Ricardo Roque Mateos20 poemas de amor y una canción desesperada - Antología nerud... by Pablo NerudaEl principe de la Niebla by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Books in Spanish for Spanish Learners
136 books — 154 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 623 voters

BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstOnce Upon a Lie by Michael R. FrenchWith Love, The Argentina Family by Mirta Ines TruppOlas by José Ramón TorresThey Come in All Colors by Malcolm Hansen
Identity & Society
41 books — 52 voters


Slavoj Žižek
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

Maggie Stiefvater
It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought. ...more
Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

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