The Book of Lost Languages: An Epic Quest to Decipher the Past

Daniel Harbour

The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved

Steven Mithen

The Wordspotter's Guide: Etymological Adventures Through the English Language

Olivia Swarthout

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language

Adam Aleksic

How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words

Sophia Smith Galer

Crystal’s Curiosity Cabinet: An English Language Miscellany

David Crystal

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

Bill Bryson

Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words

John Bemelmans Marciano

Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language

Arika Okrent

The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

Hana Videen

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks

Keith Houston

Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind

Margalit Fox

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

John McWhorter

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever

John McWhorter

Why Q Needs U

Danny Bate

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

Laura Spinney

Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)

John McWhorter

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

David J. Peterson

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Amanda Montell

The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

John McWhorter

The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

Mark Forsyth

The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase

Mark Forsyth

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

Mark Forsyth

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

Guy Deutscher

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Gretchen McCulloch

In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius

Arika Okrent

Why We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind Our Accents

Valerie Fridland

Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell

Gabe Henry

The Language-Lover's Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities

Joshua Blackburn

Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland

Martha Barnette