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1.
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
by:
Ambrose Bierce
4.05 avg rating — 10,953 ratings
2.
The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
by:
Jean Chevalier
4.34 avg rating — 759 ratings
3.
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
by:
Francis D.K. Ching
4.29 avg rating — 1,727 ratings
4.
The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions
by:
Robert Todd Carroll
4.03 avg rating — 578 ratings
5.
Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words
by:
Josefa Heifetz Byrne
4.26 avg rating — 146 ratings
6.
Tender Buttons
by:
Gertrude Stein
3.65 avg rating — 7,004 ratings
7.
10,000 Dreams Interpreted: A Dictionary of Dreams
by:
Gustavus Hindman Miller
3.49 avg rating — 940 ratings
8.
Chambers Dictionary of Etymology
by:
Robert K. Barnhart
4.50 avg rating — 110 ratings
9.
A Hole is to Dig
by:
Ruth Krauss
4.23 avg rating — 2,500 ratings
10.
The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
by:
Gustave Flaubert
3.77 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
11.
A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake
by:
S. Foster Damon
4.38 avg rating — 174 ratings
12.
Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined (Volume 1)
by:
Aaron Peckham
3.82 avg rating — 183 ratings
13.
The Age of Wire and String
by:
Ben Marcus
3.70 avg rating — 1,727 ratings
14.
Dictionary of the Khazars
by:
Milorad Pavić
4.17 avg rating — 7,444 ratings
15.
The Meaning of Liff
by:
Douglas Adams
3.97 avg rating — 4,418 ratings
16.
Open House for Butterflies
by:
Ruth Krauss
4.38 avg rating — 520 ratings
16.
The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit: An A to Z Lexicon of Empty, Enraging, and Just Plain Stupid Office Talk
by:
Lois Beckwith
4.03 avg rating — 108 ratings
18.
The New Devils Dictionary: Creepy Cliches and Sinister Synonyms
by:
J.N. Williamson
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
19.
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
by:
Kevin Wilson
4.05 avg rating — 4,335 ratings
20.
The Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge
by:
David Kamp
3.75 avg rating — 452 ratings
21.
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary
by:
Rebecca Brown
4.30 avg rating — 163 ratings
22.
The Film Snob*s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Filmological Knowledge
by:
David Kamp
3.62 avg rating — 259 ratings
23.
The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory
by:
David Macey
4.29 avg rating — 153 ratings
24.
The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate
by:
Eugene Ehrlich
3.96 avg rating — 241 ratings
25.
Imaginationally: Michael's Lovable Fun of Dictionaries
by:
Michael Bernard Loggins
3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
26.
The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge
by:
David Kamp
3.62 avg rating — 87 ratings
27.
Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life
by:
C.S. Lewis
4.19 avg rating — 101 ratings
28.
The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange, and Downright Bizarre
by:
Jonathan Maberry
4.39 avg rating — 97 ratings
29.
The Glass Harmonica: A Lexicon of the Fantastical
by:
Barbara Ninde Byfield
4.39 avg rating — 103 ratings
29.
Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language
by:
Darach Ó Séaghdha
4.12 avg rating — 824 ratings
29.
The Official Dictionary of Idiocy: A Lexicon For Those of Us Who Are Far Less Idiotic Than the Rest of You (Official Dictionary, 4)
by:
James Napoli
3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
32.
A Dictionary of Symbols
by:
Juan Eduardo Cirlot
4.14 avg rating — 842 ratings
32.
The Lexicon of Comicana
by:
Mort Walker
4.16 avg rating — 58 ratings
34.
An illustrated dictionary of hairdressing & wigmaking
by:
James Stevens Cox
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
34.
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
by:
Barbara Cassin
4.54 avg rating — 70 ratings
36.
They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases
by:
Howard Rheingold
3.86 avg rating — 317 ratings
37.
Bullshit: A Lexicon
by:
Mark Peters
3.47 avg rating — 47 ratings
38.
Lexicon: American Style 2: Exercising Our English Language, Our 'Flexicon'
by:
Patrick Ragains
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
39.
Creole Discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles
by:
Susanne Mühleisen
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
40.
A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian
by:
Dean King
4.11 avg rating — 2,973 ratings
41.
The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon
by:
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
4.06 avg rating — 205 ratings
41.
Jump-rope Rhymes: A Dictionary (American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series)
by:
Roger D. Abrahams
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
43.
Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language
by:
Henry N. Beard
3.91 avg rating — 69 ratings
44.
A Whaler's Dictionary
by:
Dan Beachy-Quick
4.25 avg rating — 116 ratings
45.
The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works
by:
Gahan Wilson
4.04 avg rating — 169 ratings
46.
Shallow Water Dictionary
by:
John R. Stilgoe
4.29 avg rating — 55 ratings