The Horologicon

The Horologicon

By
Mark Forsyth
Mark Forsyth
2012 • 272 pages

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187 books

To Read Non Fiction

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Death
Getting Waisted
The Dying Game
Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths
Driving with Dead People
Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders
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Kirsty Cabot
The Sisters Brothers
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
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Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost, & Where Did It Go?

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24 books

Non Fiction

MonolithicMiaxana
Kirsty Cabot
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks
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Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost, & Where Did It Go?

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161 books

Linguistics

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Spiritomb
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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Spiritomb
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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Spiritomb
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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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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