Books about Language

23 books

The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chloe O. Davis

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth

The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth

My Grammar And I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?) Old-School Ways to Sharpen your English by Caroline Taggart

Caroline Taggart

Practical English Usage by Michael Swan

The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter

Lexicon by Max Barry

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

Exactly by Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell

The Latinist by Mark Prins

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

Confessions of a Grammar Queen by Eliza Knight

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

Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert

The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams

Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte

Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson