An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing

Tim Brookes

Why We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind Our Accents

Valerie Fridland

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

Jing Tsu

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

Ross Perlin

Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages

Lorna Gibb

You Say Potato: A Book About Accents

Ben Crystal

The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book

Alex Bellos

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Amanda Montell

Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing

Polly Barton

Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

Yōko Tawada

A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think

Caleb Everett

Fluent Forever (Revised Edition): How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

Gabriel Wyner

Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

R.L. Trask

Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

Gaston Dorren

In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

Arika Okrent