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• Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon… by Richard Lederer
• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
• Crazy English by Richard Lederer
• The Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to… by Lynne Truss
• Made in America by Bill Bryson
• English as She Is Spoke: Being a Comprehensive Phrasebook… by José da Fonseca
• The Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• More Anguished English: an Expose of Embarrassing… by Richard Lederer
• The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
• The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for… by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• Get Thee to a Punnery by Richard Lederer
• Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
• Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a… by Lynne Truss
• English as a Second F*cking Language: How to Swear… by Sterling Johnson
• An Exaltation of Larks: or, The Venereal Game by James Lipton
• Forgotten English by Jeffrey Kacirk
• Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in… by Patricia T. O'Conner
• Adventures of a Verbivore by Richard Lederer
• The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous… by Peter Bowler
• They Have a Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of… by Howard Rheingold
• The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever… by Jeffrey Kacirk
• The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage by Kingsley Amis
• The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams
• Eats, Shites & Leaves: Crap English and How to Use It by A. Parody
• The American Language by H. L. Mencken
• The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our… by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• Heavens to Betsy!: And Other Curious Sayings by Charles Earle Funk
• The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower
• The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults… by Richard Lederer
• Almanac of Words at Play by Willard R. Espy
• Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary by Vivian Cook
• Thereby Hangs a Tale by Charles Earle Funk
• Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language… by June Casagrande
• Miracle of Language by Richard Lederer
• Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
• The Elephants of Style : A Trunkload of Tips on the Big… by Bill Walsh
• 1811 dictionary of the vulgar tongue;: A dictionary of… by Francis Grose
• Who Put Butter in Butterfly...and Other Fearless… by David Feldman
• The Play of Words by Richard Lederer
• The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonanza of Bloopers,… by Richard Lederer
• The Joy of Lex: How to Have Fun With 860,341,500 Words by Gyles Brandreth
• Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable… by Nancy Mitford
• Latin for All Occasions by Henry Beard
• The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten
• The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent… by Geoffrey K. Pullum
• Latin for Even More Occasions by Henry Beard
• Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames by Ormonde De Kay
• Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit & Wisdom From History's… by Mardy Grothe
• Junk English by Ken Smith
• Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from… by Mark Liberman
• The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and… by David Crystal
• Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English by James Cochrane
• The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily… by Eugene Ehrlich
• Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many… by Bill Walsh
• The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of… by Jr., Roy Blount
• A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and… by Kitty Burns Florey
• A Civil Tongue by Edwin Newman
• A Hog on Ice by Charles Earle Funk
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Advanced French for Exceptional Cats by Henry Beard
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Yiddish with Dick and Jane by Ellis Weiner
• The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition by Eric S. Raymond
• Sniglets (Snig'lit : Any Word That Doesn't Appear in the… by Rich Hall
• Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk
• Scheisse: The Real German You Were Never Taught in School by Gertrude Besserwisser
• How to Talk Minnesotan: A Visitor's Guide by Howard Mohr
• Here Speeching American: A Very Strange Guide to English as… by Kathryn Petras
• Watching the English by Kate Fox
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking… by Lewis Carroll
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Highly Selective Dictionary For The Extraordinarily… by Eugene Ehrlich
• The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from… by Adam Jacot de Boinod
• Strictly Speaking by Edwin Newman
• Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
• Much Obliged, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
• The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-Bred Words by Peter Bowler
• Three men in a boat by Jerome K. Jerome
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse
• Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers
• Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky
• Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and… by Josefa Heifetz Byrne
• The Wordsworth Book of Intriguing Words (Wordsworth… by Paul Hellweg
• Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Jeeves in the Offing by P.G. Wodehouse
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
• Fractured English by Richard Lederer
• Lost In Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad by Charlie Croker
• Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
• British English a to Zed by Norman W. Schur
• Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
• A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes
• Wicked Words: A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and… by Hugh Rawson
• Wicked German (Wicked Travel Series) by Howard Tomb
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse
• The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels by Lynne Truss
• Words Words Words by David Crystal
• Fumblerules by William Safire
• The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Word Myths, Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends by David Wilton
• Amo, amas, amat, and more: How to use Latin to your own… by Eugene Ehrlich
• Thud! by Terry Pratchett
• Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean
• Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
• Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
• I Always Look up the Word "Egregious" by Maxwell W. Nurnberg
• Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• Ring for Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
• The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
• More Sniglets: Any Word That Doesn't Appear in the… by Rich Hall
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
• Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
• Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes… by Neil Gaiman
• Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
• The Portable Curmudgeon by Jon Winokur
• Brit-Think, Ameri-Think: A Transatlantic Survival Guide,… by Jane Walmsley
• Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk by Hugh Rawson
• Hooray for Yiddish: A Book About English by Leo Calvin Rosten
• The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the… by Richard Mitchell
• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
• Why You Say It by Webb B. Garrison
• The Future Dictionary of America: a book to benefit… by Jordan, Ph.D. Bass
• Son of It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (Bulwer-Lytton… by Scott Rice
• Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of… by John H. McWhorter
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
• Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Poplollies & Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words Along… by Susan Kelz Sperling
• Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
• Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined by urbandictionary.com
• Thy Father Is a Gorbellied Codpiece: Create over 100,000 of… by Barry Kraft
• Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P.G. Wodehouse
• Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
• British Phrasebook by Elizabeth Bartsch-Parker
• Going nucular : language, politics, and culture in… by Geoffrey Nunberg
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
• Making Out in Japanese by Todd Geers
• I'm A Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America… by Bill Bryson
• Paperweight by Stephen Fry
• Latin Quips at Your Fingertips by Rose Williams
• Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
• The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Yiddish with George and Laura by Ellis Weiner
• It's Greek to Me by Michael Macrone
• The Game of Words (R) by Willard R. Espy
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Chinglish by Oliver Lutz Radtke
• Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer's Guide… by Theodore Menline Bernstein
• How to Talk American: A Guide to Our Native Tongues by James Marshall Crotty
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Best (?) from the… by Scott Rice
• Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing… by Erin McKean
• Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Torn Wings and Faux Pas: A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly… by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
• More Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• Horsefeathers and other curious words by Charles E. Funk
• Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from… by Mardy Grothe
• American-English, English-American by Anthea Bickerton
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
• The King Who Rained by Fred Gwynne
• Candide by Voltaire
• The Cunning Linguist: Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks,… by Richard Lederer
• The Word Detective: Solving the Mysteries Behind Those… by Evan Morris
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
• Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the… by Kate Burridge
• The Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Dimboxes, Epopts, and Other Quidams: Words to Describe… by David Grambs
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• The Evasion-English Dictionary by Maggie Balistreri
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
• The BFG by Roald Dahl
• Brush Up Your Shakespeare! by Michael Macrone
• Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in… by Stefan Fatsis
• Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about… by Patricia T. O'Conner
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
• Je ne Sais What? A Guide to de rigueur Frenglish for… by Jon Winokur
• Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme by Chris Roberts
• N'Heures Souris Rames by Ormonde De Kay
• Jewish as a Second Language by Molly Katz
• The Grouchy Grammarian: A How-Not-To Guide to the 47 Most… by Thomas Parrish
• Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay: Practical Advice for the… by Richard Lederer
• Rhyming Cockney Slang by Jack Jones
• When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech,… by Ben Yagoda
• The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations by Ned Sherrin
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations by Fred Metcalf
• Idiom's Delight by Sue Brock
• Doublespeak: From Revenue Enhancement to Terminal Living :… by William Lutz
• Devious Derivations by Hugh Rawson
• Bride of Dark and Stormy (Bulwer-Lytton Contest) by Scott Rice
• Hairy, Scary, Ordinary by Brian P. Cleary
• The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
• On language by William Safire
• American Tongue by Jim Quinn
• Darkmans by Nicola Barker
• Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language by Ruth Wajnryb
• More Parts (Picture Puffins) by Tedd Arnold
• The Lexicon: A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the… by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Cliches,… by Watson Don
• Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
• Napalm & Silly Putty by George Carlin
• Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster… by Max Decharne
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
• Let Stalk Strine by Afferbeck Lauder
• The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
• The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
• The Book of Poisonous Quotes by Colin Jarman
• George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl
• Language Play by David Crystal
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• The Science of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett
• The Limerick by G. Legman
• The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex by Joshua Piven
• Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
• Webster's unafraid dictionary by Leonard Louis Levinson
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo