Best Popular Language Books on Goodreads

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On Language
On Language 3.82 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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Course in General Linguistics
Course in General Linguistics 3.97 avg rating — 3,571 ratings
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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English 3.71 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Language and Mind
Language and Mind 3.84 avg rating — 1,302 ratings
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Syntactic Structures
Syntactic Structures 3.83 avg rating — 885 ratings
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything 3.77 avg rating — 2,759 ratings
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock's Latin 4.13 avg rating — 1,781 ratings
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Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite 3.80 avg rating — 942 ratings
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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners 3.54 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
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501 French Verbs (Barron's 501 French Verbs) (English and French Edition)
501 French Verbs (Barron's 501 French Verbs) (English and French Edition) 4.25 avg rating — 648 ratings
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The Story of English in 100 Words
The Story of English in 100 Words 3.92 avg rating — 2,508 ratings
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Words and Rules
Words and Rules 3.90 avg rating — 1,916 ratings
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The American Language
The American Language 4.12 avg rating — 545 ratings
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Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose 3.94 avg rating — 2,337 ratings
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Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
by: Josh Katz
4.18 avg rating — 1,283 ratings
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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu 3.74 avg rating — 2,390 ratings
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Polyglot: How I Learn Languages
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages 3.82 avg rating — 1,393 ratings
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages 3.79 avg rating — 4,031 ratings
119.
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth 4.08 avg rating — 797 ratings
120.
Babel
Babel 4.16 avg rating — 398,380 ratings
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1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,781 ratings
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Naming and Necessity
Naming and Necessity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,453 ratings
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Babel-17
Babel-17 3.72 avg rating — 19,542 ratings
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The Search for the Perfect Language
The Search for the Perfect Language 3.96 avg rating — 834 ratings
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Of Grammatology
Of Grammatology 3.97 avg rating — 5,289 ratings
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You Say Potato: A Book About Accents
You Say Potato: A Book About Accents 3.88 avg rating — 629 ratings
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The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook
The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook 4.34 avg rating — 1,481 ratings
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My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right
My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right 3.85 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
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Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation 3.66 avg rating — 676 ratings
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts 3.95 avg rating — 60,502 ratings
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Poetry, Language, Thought
Poetry, Language, Thought 4.11 avg rating — 3,638 ratings
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Language, Truth and Logic
Language, Truth and Logic 3.75 avg rating — 4,177 ratings
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Garner's Modern American Usage 4.60 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
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The Little Prince
The Little Prince 4.33 avg rating — 2,375,646 ratings
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Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach
Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach 4.27 avg rating — 939 ratings
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Language and Symbolic Power
Language and Symbolic Power 4.19 avg rating — 968 ratings
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La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language 3.77 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
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The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds 4.08 avg rating — 918 ratings
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GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. II
GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. II
by: Eri Banno
4.35 avg rating — 682 ratings
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The Story of Spanish
The Story of Spanish 3.92 avg rating — 600 ratings
141.
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,204 ratings
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World 4.17 avg rating — 5,288 ratings
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Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1)
Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 4,581 ratings
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts 3.45 avg rating — 691 ratings
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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York 4.21 avg rating — 672 ratings
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Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,040 ratings
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Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding
Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding 3.65 avg rating — 9,795 ratings
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Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story
Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story 3.62 avg rating — 629 ratings
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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen 3.63 avg rating — 2,089 ratings
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Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar
Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar 4.26 avg rating — 2,803 ratings
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Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year 4.29 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods 3.63 avg rating — 1,498 ratings
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading 3.98 avg rating — 27,060 ratings
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Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You
Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You
by: Jay Rubin
4.17 avg rating — 674 ratings
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Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World
Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World 4.21 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life 4.33 avg rating — 46,858 ratings
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Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage
Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage 4.37 avg rating — 610 ratings
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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words 3.79 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
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Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word 4.14 avg rating — 2,064 ratings
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Om Bullshit
Om Bullshit 3.58 avg rating — 15,250 ratings
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When in French: Love in a Second Language
When in French: Love in a Second Language 3.51 avg rating — 3,605 ratings
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows 4.46 avg rating — 5,592 ratings
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Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind
Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind 4.02 avg rating — 526 ratings
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The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain 4.20 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction 3.30 avg rating — 960 ratings
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Landmarks
Landmarks 4.23 avg rating — 4,290 ratings
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Language A to Z
Language A to Z 4.28 avg rating — 970 ratings
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Language Families of the World
Language Families of the World 4.42 avg rating — 971 ratings
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Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language
Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language 3.74 avg rating — 785 ratings
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Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca 4.15 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language 4.32 avg rating — 800 ratings
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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English 4.24 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention 3.43 avg rating — 980 ratings
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