6 best-selling language books like The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language by Keith Kahn-Harris

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The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language

By: Keith Kahn-Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point Keith …

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1. The Goblin Emperor

By: Katherine Addison

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a b… read more

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2. Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Holy wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most impo… read more

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3. Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It … read more

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4. Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.98

Format: None pages,

It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Roy… read more

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5. Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.92

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to h… read more

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"Seven thousand years is just one day at a time"

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

"The king nodded. “What are the priests doing about this?"

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

"Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something."

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

"Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped."

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

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6. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

7. Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.00

Format: 64 pages,

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revol… read more

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8. The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

By: Guy Deutscher

2.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaveswith the science of The Language Instinct, an original … read more

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9. Doomed Love (Great Loves, #1)

By: Virgil , W.F. Jackson Knight

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Love can be hopeless From the fall of Troy to the deadly Harpies, Aeneas' epic voyage is filled wit… read more

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10. De polyglotta älskarna

By: Lina Wolff

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

Drommen om forstaelse Max Lamas drommer om en alskarinna som talar alla hans sprak. Sokandet tar ho… read more

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11. People of the Book

By: Geraldine Brooks

3.00

Format: 96 pages,

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript throu… read more

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12. Complete Poems

By: Edith Södergran

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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13. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.34

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more

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"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

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14. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)

By: Randall Munroe

4.37

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

By: Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. The Facemaker

By: Lindsey Fitzharris

4.29

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

By: James Vincent

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful to… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Bear Head (Dogs of War, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Mars. The red planet. A new frontier for humanity, a civilization where humans can live in peace, l… read more

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" Jimmy: “What, you’re my goddamn drugs counsellor now, are you?"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bear Head (Dogs of War, #2)

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20. Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong

By: Giles Yeo

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A Cambridge obesity researcher upends everything we thought we knew about calories and calorie-coun… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds by Viorica Marian

21. The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds

By: Viorica Marian

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Sparkles with insight.”—Daniel Pink One of Behavioral Scientist ’s Summer Books of 2023 One of Ne… read more

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  • linguistics
  • nonfiction
  • language
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22. Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

By: Gaston Dorren

3.80

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it―only one in five peop… read more

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  • linguistics
  • nonfiction
  • language
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23. The Things We Do to Our Friends

By: Heather Darwent

3.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history—the… read more

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24. A Chip Shop in Poznań

By: Ben Aitken

3.45

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross, talkRADIO Not many Brits move to Poland to … read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

By: Gretchen McCulloch

4.05

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. … read more

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  • linguistics
  • nonfiction
  • language
"Irony is a linguistic trust fall."

-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

"Language is humanity's most spectacular open source project."

-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

"The appeal of having friends in your pocket is unlikely to go away."

-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

"We've had the right to adapt longer than we've had the right to prevent copying."

-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

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26. The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

By: Silvia Ferrara

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Silvia Ferrara's The Greatest Invention is a code-cracking tour around the globe, sifting through o… read more

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  • linguistics
  • nonfiction
  • language
Cover of When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster by Lucy Easthope

27. When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster

By: Lucy Easthope

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Professor Lucy Easthope is the UK's leading authority on recovering from disaster. She's the one th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. One More Croissant for the Road

By: Felicity Cloake

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The nation’s ‘taster in chief’ cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions o… read more

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  • nonfiction
"God gave us the boulangerie for a reason and that reason is breakfast."

-Felicity Cloake, One More Croissant for the Road

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29. The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

By: Morten H. Christiansen

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Forget the language instinct—this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is p… read more

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  • linguistics
  • nonfiction
  • language
"Linguistic order is always at the edge of chaos."

-Morten H. Christiansen, The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

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30. The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language

By: Keith Kahn-Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point Keith … read more

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  • linguistics
  • nonfiction
  • language
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31. Philosophy in 40 ideas: From Aristotle to Zhong: Lessons for Life

By: The School of Life

4.04

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

This book artfully draws together forty of the greatest and most useful ideas found in philosophy, … read more

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Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

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Randall Munroe

4.37

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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

Transform Your Habits

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Lindsey Fitzharris

4.29

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Martha Wells

4.22

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John Scalzi

3.99

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John Scalzi

4.16

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How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes

Cody Cassidy

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