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- 2026 -
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Laura Spinney
The Wordspotter's Guide: A Jaunt Through Our Etymological Past
Olivia Swarthout
Beyond Words: How we Learn, Use, and Lose Language
Karen Stollznow
Language Rules! Secrets of a Uniquely Human Ability
Asya Pereltsvaig
Why We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind Our Accents
Valerie Fridland
- 2025 -
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
John McWhorter
The Language-Lover's Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities
Joshua Blackburn
Friends with Words: Aventures in Languageland
Martha Barnette
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
Madeleine Beekman
The Atlas of Languages: Words Around the World
Rachel Lancashire
The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet
Amalia Gnanadesikan
- 2024 -
Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
Arik Kershenbaum
Daniel Oberhaus
Evangeline Adamou
Jesse Sheidlower
The Dawn of Language: The Story of How We Came to Talk
Sverker Johansson
A Really Short History of Words
Bill Bryson
- 2023 -
Purrieties of Language: How We Talk about Cats Online
Edith Podhovnik
Languages of the World: An Introduction
Asya Pereltsvaig
Life and Language Beyond Earth
Raymond Hickey
You're All Talk: Why We Are What We Speak
Rob Drummond
An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!
Florence Hazrat
Michelle McSweeney
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Valerie Fridland
A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate
Harry van der Hulst
- 2022 -
- 2021 -
I Saw the Dog: How Language Works
Alexandra Aikhenvald
- 2020 -
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCullouch
- 2019 -
- 2018 -
- 2017 -
How We Talk: The Inner Workings of Conversation
N. J. Enfield
Why Only Us: Language and Evolution
Robert Berwick & Noam Chomsky
Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar
David Crystal
An Introduction to the Languages of the World
Anatole Lyovin, Brett Kessler, & William Lebeb
- 2016 -
- 2015 -
Tom Wolfe
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
Richard Roberts & Robert Kreuz
A Brief History of the Spanish Language
David Pharies
Words and Rules: The Ingredients Of Language
Steven Pinker
- 2014 -
- 2013 -
Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain
David Crystal & Hilary Crystal
Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling
David Crystal
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
Melissa Mohr
Michael Coe
Latin: Story of a World Language
Jürgen Leonhardt (Author) & Kenneth Kronenberg (translator)
Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work
Deborah Tannen
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Deborah Tannen
Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow
- 2012 -
Daniel Everett
Julie Coleman
- 2011 -
Phillip Durkin
The History of English Spelling
Christopher Upward & George Davidson
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
James Pennebaker
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
Henry Hitchings
- 2010 -
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel
Nicholas Ostler
Kim Potowski
Richard Lederer
David Crystal
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
UNESCO (Editor: Christopher Moseley)
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
David Crystal
Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
Donna Jo Napoli & Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Thomas Lathrop
- 2009 -
Larry Trask
Linguistics for Non-Linguists: A Primer with Exercises
Frank Parker & Kathryn Riley
Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone
Anatoly Liberman
- 2008 -
The Seven Words You Can't Say On Television
Steven Pinker
By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English
David Crystal
- 2007 -
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Steven Pinker
Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin
Nicholas Ostler
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
Christine Kenneally
Tore Janson, Merethe Damsgaard Sørensen, & Nigel Vincent
The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs, and Pictograms
Andrew Robinson
- 2006 -
Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow
David Crystal
- 2005 -
David Crystal
Do You Speak American?: An Insightful Journey Through American Speech and Writing
Robert MacNeil & Michael Cran
- 2004 -
- 2003 -
George Lakoff & Mark Johnson
The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World
Bernard Comrie, Stephen Matthews, & Maria Polinsky
- 2002 -
- 2001 -
- 2000 -
Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages
Daniel Nettle & Suzanne Romaine
How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Life
Roberta M. Golinkoff & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
John Russell Rickford & Russell John Rickford
American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts
Shirley Silver & Wick Miller
- 1990s -
Educating Eve: The Language Instinct Debate
Geoffrey Sampson
Noam Chomsky & Mitsou Ronat
Laurie Bauer & Peter Trudgill
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
Robin Dunbar
- Pre-1990s -
Mario Pei
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