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

The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar

Mark C. Baker

The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building

David J. Peterson

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

John McWhorter

The Joy of Lex: How to Have Fun With 860,341,500, Words

Gyles Brandreth

Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca

John McWhorter

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Amanda Montell

The Story of English in 100 Words

David Crystal

Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

Laura M. Ahearn

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

Mark Forsyth

How to Do Things with Words

J.L. Austin

Language and Culture

Claire Kramsch

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker

Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work

Deborah Tannen

Language Myths

Laurie Bauer

The Unfolding Of Language

Guy Deutscher

Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z

David Sacks

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris

Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe

Gaston Dorren

Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

Mark Abley

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

Daniel L. Everett

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind

George Lakoff

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

Guy Deutscher

The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

John McWhorter

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

Bill Bryson

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Gretchen McCulloch