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BingoDOG - Language in Fiction

Description: This list was create to collect recommendations for the BingoDOG 2015 challenge, but anyone is welcome to contribute books.

Rank Title Author Added

1

by George Bernard Shaw

6,729 members

78 reviews

3.8

4 Members: hailelib, smcwl, aulsmith, SleepySheep

2

by Mary Doria Russell

7,700 members

406 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hailelib, KimarieBee, smcwl

3

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,080 members

345 reviews

4

2 Members: smcwl, Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: written in dialect

4

by Samuel R. Delany

2,639 members

84 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hailelib, aulsmith

5

by Suzette Haden Elgin

1,119 members

30 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, Her_Royal_Orangeness

6

The Languages of Pao

640 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hailelib, SleepySheep

7

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

15,923 members

384 reviews

4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

8

by William Faulkner

14,754 members

215 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: written in dialect

9

by Ann Patchett

13,194 members

457 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: character is an interpreter

10

Out of the Silent Planet

10,998 members

163 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

11

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,705 members

243 reviews

4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: written in dialect

12

The Language of Flowers

by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

4,590 members

405 reviews

3.9

Member: LittleTaiko

13

Ella Minnow Pea

3,936 members

259 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

14

The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

by Simon Winchester

3,821 members

80 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dudes22

15

2,151 members

141 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

16

A Heart So White

by Javier Marías

1,963 members

57 reviews

4.1

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: character is an interpreter

17

by Russell Hoban

1,334 members

25 reviews

4.2

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: phonetic transliteration

18

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

1,039 members

65 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

19

by Sheri S. Tepper

618 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

20

After Long Silence

by Sheri S. Tepper

585 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

21

The Broken Teaglass

by Emily Arsenault

507 members

47 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: cbl_tn

22

by John Crowley

477 members

11 reviews

4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: character translates work of Russian poet

23

442 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: SleepySheep

24

New Finnish grammar

by Diego Marani

390 members

22 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: inge87

25

by Leila Aboulela

381 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: character is a translation professor

26

by Gerbrand Bakker

375 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: character is a translation professor

27

Double Negative

by David Carkeet

300 members

9 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: SleepySheep

28

Painter of Silence

by Georgina Harding

294 members

19 reviews

3.8

Member: augustau
Explanations: augustau: Character is unable to speak

29

219 members

18 reviews

4

Member: augustau
Explanations: augustau: Character is unable to speak

30

The Poison Oracle

by Peter Dickinson

170 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: SleepySheep

31

The Full Catastrophe

by David Carkeet

116 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: SleepySheep

32

by Václav Havel

113 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: SleepySheep

33

by Jess Richards

91 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: dialect/made-up language (not sure how to describe it but it is a notable feature of the book)

34

by Neal Stephenson

17,053 members

294 reviews

4.2

35

by China Miéville

3,405 members

214 reviews

3.9

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September 2014
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