Books about Language

10 books

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson

The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chloe O. Davis

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

Exactly by Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell

The Latinist by Mark Prins

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

Confessions of a Grammar Queen by Eliza Knight