The Etymologicon

The Etymologicon

By
Mark Forsyth
Mark Forsyth
2012 • 279 pages

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22 books

Started But Not Finished Yet

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Kirsty Cabot
American Psycho
Heart of Darkness
Waterloo: The Battle That Brought Down Napoleon
Artemis Fowl
The Drawing of the Three
The Etymologicon
Breverton's Phantasmagoria

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25 books

DNF

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Rai
American Psycho
All the Little Children
The Dead Zone
The Night Watch
Our Endless Numbered Days
The Moonlight Palace

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27 books

Linguistique

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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
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Fluent in 3 Months
Woe Is I JR.
Le français au Québec : 400 ans d'histoire et de vie
The Bilingual Brain

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161 books

Linguistics

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How Dead Languages Work
Forbidden Words
Grammar and Gender
Language Myths
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

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25 books

History Of English

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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle, and Early Modern English
Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Grammar and Gender
Word origins
The Story of English in 100 Words

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37 books

English Language

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The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left
Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
The Wordhord
The Mother Tongue

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23 books

Historical Linguistics

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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
A History of German: What the Past Reveals about Today's Language
Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
Grammar and Gender
The Story of English in 100 Words
Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling, and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling
Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation

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56 books

Abandoned

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SteveSupporter
Ancillary Justice
Norse Mythology
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All Clear
Uprooted
The Red Tent
The Clan of the Cave Bear

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20 books

Non Fiction

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How to Be an Antiracist
The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
Cosmos
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

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288 books

Owned

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Foul Heart Huntsman
Zone One
The Square of Sevens
The Good Earth
The Magician King
The Hero of Ages
Trainspotting

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14 books

Nonfiction

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We Need to Talk About Money
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Do Nothing
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
The Whole Picture
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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26 books

Z Read Soon Nonfiction

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Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The French Revolution: A History
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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