Non-fiction books about linguistics and fiction which relates to linguistics in some way (disclaimer: some connections are looser than others and I have not read all of these books)
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last updated April, 2026
This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building
David J. Peterson
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction
Derek Attridge
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Languages Are Good For Us
Sophie Hardach
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Adam Aleksic
The Linguistics of British Sign Language: An Introduction
Rachel Sutton-Spence
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
Albert Costa
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
Dan Jurafsky
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
David Crystal
A Language of Dragons
S.F. Williamson
The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language
Keith Kahn-Harris
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of Translation
David Bellos
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Mark Dunn
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell
Babel
R.F. Kuang
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