Wordy Titles
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These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
by:
Nancy E. Turner
4.36 avg rating — 80,364 ratings 
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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Doreen Rappaport
4.33 avg rating — 12,819 ratings 
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right
by:
Bill Bryson
3.89 avg rating — 3,201 ratings 13. 
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
by:
Jen Bryant
4.11 avg rating — 2,603 ratings 
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
by:
Terry Ryan
3.92 avg rating — 15,515 ratings 
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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
by:
Randall Munroe
4.14 avg rating — 12,052 ratings 
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The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
by:
Jon Meacham
3.97 avg rating — 2,054 ratings 
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The Price of Fear: The Film Career of Vincent Price, In His Own Words
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Joel Eisner
4.04 avg rating — 56 ratings 32. 
Revolution of the Word: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry, 1914-1945 4.45 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Pete Seeger: In His Own Words (Nine Lives Music Series)
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Pete Seeger
4.17 avg rating — 104 ratings 34. 
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
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John McWhorter
3.95 avg rating — 4,127 ratings 
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Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing
by:
Ben Blatt
3.84 avg rating — 2,026 ratings 39. 
Yessir, I've Been Here a Long Time: The Faces and Words of Americans Who Have Lived a Century
by:
George Mitchell
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
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Lynn Sherr
4.09 avg rating — 196 ratings 41. 
Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just The Words - Volumes 1 & 2
by:
Graham Chapman
4.48 avg rating — 240 ratings 43. 
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
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Manchán Magan
4.24 avg rating — 1,100 ratings 
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The Unwritten, Vol. 6: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words
by:
Mike Carey
4.06 avg rating — 4,045 ratings 
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'What May Words Say . . . ?': A Reading of the The Merchant of Venice
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Inge Leimberg
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure 3.97 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
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A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: Words We Pinched From Other Languages
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Chloe Rhodes
3.59 avg rating — 253 ratings 59. 
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Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World
by:
Yee-Lum Mak
4.21 avg rating — 2,118 ratings 
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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them
by:
Anthony Holden
3.80 avg rating — 1,535 ratings 68. 
Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There
by:
David Scrimgeour
4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings 69. 
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln: The Story of the Gettysburg Address (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)
by:
Jean Fritz
4.07 avg rating — 188 ratings 70. 
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
by:
Jeff Prucher
4.07 avg rating — 104 ratings 70. 
Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
by:
Kwame Alexander
4.30 avg rating — 2,280 ratings 
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37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination
by:
Sherry Boschert
4.30 avg rating — 60 ratings 
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Movie Tie-In): Neighborly Words of Wisdom from Mister Rogers
by:
Fred Rogers
3.96 avg rating — 1,756 ratings 
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One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe
by:
Molly McQuade
3.31 avg rating — 26 ratings 81. 
Writing Habit Mastery - How to Write 2,000 Words a Day and Forever Cure Writer’s Block
by:
S.J. Scott
3.67 avg rating — 548 ratings 81. 
The Art of Mindful Reading: Embracing the Wisdom of Words (Mindfulness series)
by:
Ella Berthoud
3.52 avg rating — 578 ratings 83. 
Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary 3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2: The Word for World Is Forest / Five Ways to Forgiveness / The Telling / Stories 4.54 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words
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John W. Pilley
4.10 avg rating — 1,430 ratings 87. 
Change Your Words, Change Your Life: Understanding the Power of Every Word You Speak
by:
Joyce Meyer
4.38 avg rating — 1,961 ratings 
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots 4.44 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
by:
Guy Leschziner
4.04 avg rating — 771 ratings 96. 
Fighting Songs and Warring Words: Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars
by:
Brian Murdoch
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 97. 
Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone
by:
Anatoly Liberman
3.47 avg rating — 201 ratings 
