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Books for an Amateur Linguist - Page 2

Piggybacking off of a private user's excellent list: "Linguist's Bookshelf" https://www.listchallenges.com/linguists-bookshelf, from which I got many of the titles on this list, I have created a list of books, both fiction and nonfiction, which should be quite interesting to an amateur linguist or anyone interested in languages, especially English. 😊
P.S. This is mostly a giant TBR list for me too.
P.P.S. How I managed to forget to add A Clockwork Orange is beyond me...🤦‍♀️
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Ella Minnow Pea (Mark Dunn)
Ella Minnow Pea (Mark Dunn)
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Embassytown (China Miéville)
Embassytown (China Miéville)
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The Embedding - Ian Watson (1973)
The Embedding - Ian Watson (1973)
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Empires of the Word (Nicholas Ostler)
Empires of the Word (Nicholas Ostler)
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The Etymologicon (Mark Forsyth)
The Etymologicon (Mark Forsyth)
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Exercises in Style (Raymond Queneau)
Exercises in Style (Raymond Queneau)
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The Fall of Language in the Age of English (Minae Mizumura)
The Fall of Language in the Age of English (Minae Mizumura)
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Feersum Endjinn (Iain M. Banks)
Feersum Endjinn (Iain M. Banks)
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The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left (David Crystal)
The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left (David Crystal)
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Gadsby (Ernest Vincent Wright)
Gadsby (Ernest Vincent Wright)
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A Garden of Words (Martha Barnette)
A Garden of Words (Martha Barnette)
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Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language (Robert McCrum)
Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language (Robert McCrum)
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The Grammarians (Cathleen Schine)
The Grammarians (Cathleen Schine)
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The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language (Geoffrey K. Pullum)
The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language (Geoffrey K. Pullum)
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The Greeks Had a Word for It (Andrew Taylor)
The Greeks Had a Word for It (Andrew Taylor)
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The Guild of Xenolinguists (Sheila Finch)
The Guild of Xenolinguists (Sheila Finch)
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Hellspark (Janet Kagan)
Hellspark (Janet Kagan)
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History in English Words (Owen Barfield's)
History in English Words (Owen Barfield's)
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The Horologicon (Mark Forsyth)
The Horologicon (Mark Forsyth)
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How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (David Crystal)
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (David Crystal)
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Hunter of Worlds (C.J. Cherryh)
Hunter of Worlds (C.J. Cherryh)
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In the Land of Invented Languages (Arika Okrent)
In the Land of Invented Languages (Arika Okrent)
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The Information (James Gleick)
The Information (James Gleick)
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Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm
Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm
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Kicking the Bucket at the Drop of a Hat (Caroline Taggart)
Kicking the Bucket at the Drop of a Hat (Caroline Taggart)
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Language (Daniel Everett)
Language (Daniel Everett)
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Language and Mind (Noam Chomsky)
Language and Mind (Noam Chomsky)
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The Language Construction Kit (Mark Rosenfelder)
The Language Construction Kit (Mark Rosenfelder)
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The Language Imperative (Suzette Haden Elgin)
The Language Imperative (Suzette Haden Elgin)
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Stephen Pinker)
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Stephen Pinker)
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The Languages of Pao (Jack Vance)
The Languages of Pao (Jack Vance)
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Language Play (David Crystal)
Language Play (David Crystal)
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Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet A to Z (David Sacks)
Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet A to Z (David Sacks)
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The Last of the Vostyachs (Diego Marani)
The Last of the Vostyachs (Diego Marani)
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Lexicon (Max Barry)
Lexicon (Max Barry)
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The Library of Babel (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Library of Babel (Jorge Luis Borges)
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Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Gaston Dorren)
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Gaston Dorren)
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Lobcocks and Fartleberries (Francis Grose)
Lobcocks and Fartleberries (Francis Grose)
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Looking Through Lace (Ruth Nestvold)
Looking Through Lace (Ruth Nestvold)
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Iona and Peter Opie)
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Iona and Peter Opie)
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