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The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English - John H. McWhorter
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics - John Pollack
Room - Emma Donoghue
Embassytown - China Miéville
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, Wolfgang Krege
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English - Henry Hitchings
Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices - David Crystal
The Cambridge Guide to English Usage - Pam Peters
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language - David Crystal
The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left - David Crystal
The Global English Style Guide: Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market - John R. Kohl
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality - Steven Poole
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Lynee Truss
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