Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

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Kory Stamper
Kory Stamper
2017 • 296 pages

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26 books

Language

ThatCasualDragon
Nat
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

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563 books

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Kristina
Человек, который любил Джейн Остин
Пикник и прочие безобразия. Птица-пересмешник
Lucrezia Borgia
Письмо незнакомки
Чаша Бланшара
Пятнадцатилетний капитан
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman

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63 books

Nonf Niche

LucilleAncrath
Lucille Ancrath
Fabric of Civilization
Future Histories
The Case for Mars
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Reclaiming Conversation
The Shallows

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286 books

Nonfiction Gen

haunt
Haunt
Don't Shoot, We're Republicans: The True Story of the FBI Agent Who Did Things His Way
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Terrorism: A History
Danse Macabre
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
J.R.R. Tolkien
Columbine

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58 books

Metalit

haunt
Haunt
The Swerve
Ella Minnow Pea
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
A Gentle Madness

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802 books

Nonfiction

bookhookgeek
Laura
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Holy Cow
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
The Century
Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day

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231 books

Read 2017

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Laura
A Whispering of Spies
Dark omens
Queens of the Conquest
The Ship of the Dead
I, Eliza Hamilton
Death in St. Petersburg
Alexander Hamilton

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3,144 books

Books Own

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Heather
Promise of Blood
Dragon Ball, Vol. 2: Wish Upon a Dragon
Words of Radiance
The Shadow of What Was Lost
The Cat Whisperer: The Secret of How to Talk to Your Cat
Unqualified
The Ship of the Dead

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130 books

Science History Anthropology

Coop911
Heather
A Burglar's Guide to the City
The Secret History of the World
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Dodge City
The Secret Destiny of America

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536 books

Nonfiction

Thesassybookworm
The Sassy BookwormSupporter
Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths
Palladian Days: Finding a New Life in a Venetian Country House
First come love, then comes malaria
The Jesus family tomb
The Ruin of the Roman Empire: The Emperor Who Brought It Down, The Barbarians Who Could Have Saved It
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

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365 books

Blinkist

daanz
Daan Zeeuwe
Kaizen
Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Lives of the Stoics
A Handbook for New Stoics
Making Sense

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400 books

Non Fiction

crgreenelantern
Courtney
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It
Rocket Boys
Gus Grissom
Cosmos
America Back on Track

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87 books

2018

crgreenelantern
Courtney
Man of Steel
Stargirl
Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
The Vile Village
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

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8 books

Jessi Non Fiction

chewtape
Jessi
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Selfish Gene
Lies My Teacher Told Me
The Gene
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean

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1,331 books

Books Written By Women

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Ash
Bohemian Manifesto
Fear of Fighting
Falling in Love with Natassia: A Novel
Russian Lover and Other Stories
College Girls
The PowerBook

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200 books

Nonfiction

leeleeski
Ash
500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition
Virgin : The Untouched History
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade
Pink Think
Flow
Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods V. Dame Cumming Gordon
Bachelor Girl

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78 books

Non Fiction

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Susan Scribner
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Moneyball
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
I Wear the Black Hat

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8 books

Books And Language

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Susan Scribner
Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
When Books Went to War
The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
The Bookshop

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161 books

Linguistics

spiritomb
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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5 books

Lexicography

spiritomb
Spiritomb
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
The Dictionary of Lost Words

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156 books

Non Fiction

katebrarian
Kate
Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The numerati
Quiet, Please
The Psychopath Test

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254 books

Lady Writer

katebrarian
Kate
Blood: A Scientific Romance
Monument 14
Stir-Fry
La fille qui navigua autour de Féerie dans un bateau construit de ses propres mains
The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us
A Complicated Kindness
The Love Monster

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129 books

American Author

katebrarian
Kate
Rogue Moon
My brother's name
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Lives of the Monster Dogs
Serena
The Fault in Our Stars
The last animal

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11 books

Language

katebrarian
Kate
Mango, Abuela, and Me
Talking Hands
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
How We Talk
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca

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8 books

Linguistics

katebrarian
Kate
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
How We Talk
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power
The Sparrow
The Bilingual Brain
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