Below are all the books mentioned in episodes of A Way with Words. You can click on headers to sort by those columns and click dates to go to the episodes where the book was mentioned.
| Title | Author | Links | Aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties and Subtle Shades of Meaning | Eli Burnstein | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 20, 2024 |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jun. 3, 2023 |
| March | Geraldine Brooks | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Aug. 19, 2023 |
| A Marihuana Dictionary: Words, Terms, Events, and Persons Relating to Cannabis | Ernest Able | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Feb. 24, 2024 |
| Watch Your Tongue: What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean | Mark Abley | (Amazon) | Dec. 22, 2018 |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | (Amazon) | Apr. 8, 2016 |
| Western Words: A Dictionary of the American West | Ramon Adams | (Amazon) | Dec. 21, 2019, Oct. 6, 2018 |
| Go Hang a Salami! I’m a Lasagna Hog | John Agee | (Amazon) | Apr. 23, 2022, May 9, 2014 |
| So Many Dynamos | John Agee | (Amazon) | Apr. 23, 2022 |
| The Ha Ha Bonk Book | Allan Ahlberg, Janet Ahlberg | (Amazon) | Sep. 10, 2022 |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 2, 2023, Jan. 14, 2023 |
| Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language | Adam Aleksic | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Sep. 13, 2025 |
| Chicago: City on the Make | Nelson Algren | (Amazon) | Nov. 23, 2024 |
| The Man with the Golden Arm | Nelson Algren | (Amazon) | Dec. 14, 2019 |
| Dante’s Inferno | Dante Alighieri | (Amazon) | Nov. 16, 2013 |
| Lumberjanes | ND Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Gus A. Allen | (Amazon) | Jun. 3, 2017 |
| The City of Beasts | Isabelle Allende | (Amazon) | Jul. 13, 2019 |
| Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage | Richard Allsopp | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 15, 2025 |
| American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms | Christine Ammer | (Amazon) | Feb. 2, 2013, Feb. 17, 2012 |
| Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities | Albert Valdman, Kevin J. Rottet, Barry Jean Ancelet | (Amazon) | Oct. 19, 2019, Feb. 10, 2018 |
| All the Birds in the Sky | Charlie Jane Anders | (Amazon) | Dec. 9, 2017 |
| The Emperor’s New Clothes | Hans Christian Andersen | (Amazon) | Jun. 25, 2011, Apr. 30, 2011 |
| I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | (Amazon) | Apr. 4, 2020 |
| The One and Only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | Dec. 12, 2014 | |
| English in Advertising | Geoffrey N. Leech (Internet Archive | Nov. 29, 2025 | |
| Vague Language | Joanna Channel (Internet Archive | May 11, 2024 | |
| The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia | Sir Phillip Sidney (Internet Archive | Oct. 25, 2025 | |
| All This Could Be Yours | Jami Attenberg | (Amazon) | Dec. 14, 2019 |
| The Middlesteins | Jami Attenberg | (Amazon) | Dec. 14, 2019, Dec. 6, 2013 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 29, 2025, Dec. 2, 2023, Nov. 26, 2022, Dec. 21, 2019, Dec. 11, 2015 |
| Camp Songs, Folk Songs | Patricia Averill | (Amazon) | Dec. 31, 2016 |
| Vulgarisms and Other Errors of Speech | Richard Meade Bache | (Amazon) | May 20, 2016 |
| African-American English: Structure, History, and Use | Guy Bailey | (Amazon) | Feb. 10, 2012 |
| African Hunting, From Natal to Zambesi | William Charles Baldwin | (Amazon) | Oct. 9, 2015 |
| Tallulah | Tallulah Bankhead | (Amazon) | Jun. 9, 2012 |
| The Sea | William John Banville | (Amazon) | Feb. 2, 2013 |
| History in English Words | Owen Barfield | (Amazon) | Nov. 17, 2018 |
| The Autobiography of Charles Darwin | Charles Darwin, Nora Barlow | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 26, 2022 |
| The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Kelly Barnhill | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 17, 2022 |
| The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English | Grant Barrett | (Amazon) | Dec. 10, 2022, May 7, 2022, Oct. 7, 2017 |
| Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Feb. 10, 2024, Jul. 28, 2018 |
| Sorry About That | Edwin Batistella | (Amazon) | Jul. 13, 2019 |
| Library: An Unquiet History | Matthew Battles | Dec. 11, 2015 | |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | (Amazon) | Nov. 21, 2009 |
| A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader | Maria Popova and Claudia Bedrick | (Amazon) | Dec. 14, 2019, Nov. 23, 2019, Jul. 13, 2019 |
| Standing by Words: Essays | Wendell Beery | (Amazon) | Nov. 3, 2012 |
| Jaws | Peter Benchley | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jun. 14, 2025 |
| Franny K. Stein | Jim Benton | (Amazon) | Jun. 21, 2013 |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt | (Amazon) | Mar. 23, 2019 |
| Elephant Wish | Lou Berger | (Amazon) | Nov. 12, 2011 |
| Northern Spy | Flynn Berry | Dec. 10, 2016 | |
| The History and Present State of Virginia | Robert Beverley | Oct. 7, 2017 | |
| The Devil’s Dictionary | Ambrose Bierce | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jun. 22, 2024 |
| Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems | Brian Bilston | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jan. 14, 2023 |
| Weather Lore | Ruth Binney | Apr. 23, 2022 | |
| Virgin of the Rodeo | Sarah Bird | (Amazon) | Oct. 6, 2018 |
| The Language-Lover’s Lexipedia | Joshua Blackburn | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 13, 2025 |
| Alphabet Juice | Roy Blount, Jr | (Amazon) | Oct. 31, 2011 |
| The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children | Henry Carrington Bolton | Dec. 22, 2018 | |
| Ensnaring the Moment: On the Intersection of Poetry and Photography | Leah Ollman (Saint Lucy Books | Nov. 29, 2025 | |
| The Cabinet of Calm: Soothing Words for Troubled Times | Paul Anthony Jones’s (Bookshop | (Amazon) | Nov. 14, 2020 |
| Collected Fiction | Jorge Luis Borges | (Amazon) | Sep. 13, 2008 |
| Language and Nationality: Social Inferences, Cultural Differences, and Linguistic Misconceptions | Pietro Bortone | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 11, 2023 |
| Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See | Bianca Bosker | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 20, 2024 |
| Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain | (Amazon) | Sep. 22, 2012 |
| Cabin Fever | B.M. Bower | Apr. 18, 2020 | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jan. 9, 2021 |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | Encyclopaedia Britannica | (Amazon) | May 5, 2012 |
| Idiom’s Delight | Suzanne Brock | (Amazon) | Feb. 20, 2015, Dec. 13, 2008 |
| Everything You Know about English is Wrong | Bill Brohaugh | Jan. 30, 2010 | |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | (Amazon) | Dec. 11, 2010 |
| The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World | Patrik Svensson, translated by Agnes Broome | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 26, 2022 |
| How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming | Mike Brown | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Sep. 28, 2024 |
| A River of Words | Jen Bryant | (Amazon) | Dec. 15, 2012 |
| Crosswordese: A Guide to the Weird and Wonderful Language of Crossword Puzzles | David Bukszpan | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 16, 2023 |
| Paul Clifford | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jan. 8, 2022 |
| Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyan | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 9, 2022 |
| A Mouthful of Air | Anthony Burgess | (Amazon) | Mar. 21, 2020 |
| Are You a Bromide | Gelett Burgess | (Amazon) | Mar. 5, 2011 |
| Language and Material Culture | Allison Burkette | (Amazon) | Mar. 7, 2020 |
| Tam o’ Shanter | Robert Burns | (Amazon) | Jan. 14, 2012 |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 29, 2025 |
| Dictionary Stories | Jez Burrows | (Amazon) | Jul. 28, 2018 |
| Diners of Pennsylvania | Brian Butko | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Feb. 12, 2022 |
| Jamaica Talk | Frederic Cassidy | (Amazon) | Jun. 16, 2012 |
| Dictionary of Chicano Folklore | Rafaela Castro | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 20, 2021 |
| My Antonia | Willa Cather | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 20, 2021 |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | (Amazon) | Nov. 10, 2012 |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | (Amazon) | Apr. 25, 2014 |
| The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | (Amazon) | Mar. 20, 2015 |
| Selected Plays | Alice Childress | (Amazon) | Mar. 13, 2015 |
| Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story, 1900-1971 | Max Jones and John Chilton | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Oct. 15, 2022 |
| Good Words to You | John Ciardi | (Amazon) | Feb. 21, 2026 |
| The New York Times Food Encyclopedia | Craig Claiborne | (Amazon) | Jul. 11, 2020 |
| The Secret Lives of Color | Kassia St. Clair | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 9, 2022, Jun. 23, 2018 |
| England: Poems from a School | Kate Clanchy | (Amazon) | Aug. 15, 2020 |
| Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity and Community | Amy D. Clark | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jul. 23, 2023 |
| Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English | Joe Clark | Nov. 7, 2014 | |
| Newfoundland and Labrador English | Sandra Clarke | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jun. 17, 2023 |
| Frindle | Andrew Clements | (Amazon) | Oct. 27, 2012 |
| Moose on the Table | Jim Clemmer | (Amazon) | Jun. 25, 2011 |
| This is the Voice | John Colapinto | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 3, 2021 |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | (Amazon) | Jun. 25, 2011 |
| Poetry 180: A Turning Back To Poetry | Billy Collins | (Amazon) | Dec. 8, 2012, Nov. 17, 2012 |
| Behind the Red Door | Megan Collins | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 20, 2021 |
| The Winter Sister | Megan Collins | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 20, 2021 |
| Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | (Amazon) | Jun. 16, 2012 |
| American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | (Amazon) | Sep. 24, 2011 |
| Bambi | Marjorie Benton Cooke | (Amazon) | Feb. 2, 2013 |
| Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World | Christian Cooper | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 6, 2024 |
| Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | (Amazon) | Oct. 24, 2010 |
| A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee | David Crockett | Mar. 26, 2016 | |
| As They Say in Zanzibar | David Crystal | (Amazon) | Oct. 4, 2008 |
| Txting: The Gr8 Db8 | David Crystal | (Amazon) | Sep. 27, 2008 |
| Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist’s Guide to Britain | David and Hilary Crystal | Dec. 12, 2014 | |
| Gender Shifts in the History of English | Anne Curzan | (Amazon) | Mar. 1, 2013, Mar. 10, 2012 |
| Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words | Anne Curzan | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 20, 2024 |
| Vague Language Explored | Joan Cutting | (Amazon) | May 11, 2024 |
| Clear | Carys Davies | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 15, 2025 |
| The Public Library: A Photographic Essay | Robert Dawson | (Amazon) | Jun. 17, 2023 |
| A History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration: Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM | Dale DeBakcsy | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jun. 22, 2024 |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | Apr. 2, 2016 | |
| The Love Poems of Louis Barnaval | Charles Dekay | (Amazon) | Feb. 13, 2010 |
| The Introvert’s Way | Sophia Dembling | (Amazon) | Nov. 17, 2012 |
| One Language, Two Grammars?: Differences between British and American English | David Denison | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jun. 28, 2025 |
| Guilty by Definition | Susie Dent | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 13, 2025 |
| Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages | Guy Deutscher | (Amazon) | Dec. 11, 2010, Oct. 9, 2010 |
| From Achilles Heel to Zeus’s Shield | Dale Corey Dibbley | (Amazon) | Feb. 22, 2020 |
| Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo | (Amazon) | Sep. 23, 2023 |
| Flora & Ulysses | Kate DiCamillo | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Sep. 23, 2023 |
| The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Sep. 23, 2023 |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | (Bookshop | Link) | May 20, 2023 |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 29, 2025 |
| The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 17, 2021 |
| The Dickson Baseball Dictionary | Paul Dickson | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Feb. 24, 2024, Jan. 14, 2023, Aug. 7, 2021, Apr. 4, 2020, Sep. 21, 2019, Jul. 23, 2018, Dec. 16, 2017, Oct. 7, 2017, Oct. 22, 2016, May 15, 2015, Feb. 27, 2015, Mar. 5, 2011, Mar. 28, 2009 |
| Labels for Locals | Paul Dickson | (Amazon) | May 26, 2012, Dec. 11, 2010 |
| Slang: The Topical Dictionary of Americanisms | Paul Dickson | (Amazon) | Oct. 10, 2014 |
| Slouching Towards Bethlehem | Joan Didion | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jul. 25, 2020 |
| Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Aug. 13, 2022, Jan. 26, 2019 |
| The Hardy Boys | Franklin W. Dixon | (Amazon) | May 2, 2014 |
| Stones for Ibarra | Harriet Doerr | (Amazon) | Oct. 11, 2013 |
| Lingo | Gaston Dorren | (Amazon) | Dec. 3, 2016 |
| The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Aug. 5, 2023 |
| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | (Amazon) | Oct. 6, 2018 |
| Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style | Benjamin Dreyer | (Amazon) | Jul. 13, 2019 |
| Funny in Farsi | Firoozeh Dumas | (Amazon) | Dec. 9, 2017 |
| It Ain’t So Awful Falafel | Firoozeh Dumas | (Amazon) | Dec. 9, 2017 |
| Laughing Without An Accent | Firoozeh Dumas | (Amazon) | Dec. 9, 2017 |
| Calendar: Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year | David Ewing Duncan | (Amazon) | May 7, 2017 |
| Index, A History of The | Dennis Duncan | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jun. 25, 2022 |
| Riddling Tales from around the World | Marjorie Dundas | (Amazon) | May 28, 2011 |
| A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address | Leslie Dunkling | (Amazon) | May 17, 2008 |
| The Leveler | Julia Durango | (Amazon) | Jul. 28, 2018 |
| Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops | Nicoline van der Sijs (via open access in English and Dutch | Jan. 26, 2026 | |
| Go, Dog. Go! | .D. Eastman | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Feb. 11, 2023 |
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | (Amazon) | Dec. 22, 2018 |
| Running with Water | Torie Amarie Dale (ed.) | Jan. 18, 2020 | |
| Thinking Shakespeare | Barry Edelstein | (Amazon) | May 11, 2019 |
| Boxiana | Pierce Egan | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Feb. 7, 2026 |
| Jack Shelby: A Story of the Indiana Backwoods | George Cary Eggleston | Mar. 7, 2020 | |
| At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past | Roger Ekirch | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jan. 20, 2024 |
| The Mysterious Benedict Society | Trenton Lee Stewart, Carson Ellis | (Amazon) | Dec. 3, 2016 |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 29, 2025, Apr. 20, 2024 |
| The Black Dahlia | James Ellroy | (Amazon) | Nov. 21, 2009 |
| Blood’s a Rover | James Ellroy | (Amazon) | Nov. 21, 2009 |
| From Clerks to Corpora | Department of English Philip Shaw, Britt Erman, Emerita | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jun. 17, 2023 |
| The Whim-Wham Book | Duncan Emrich | (Amazon) | Jan. 28, 2023 |
| The Doo-Funny Family | Humorous Entertainment | (Amazon) | Jan. 15, 2022 |
| I Remember Nothing | Nora Ephron | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jan. 23, 2021 |
| Babel No More: The Search for Extraordinary Language Learners | Michael Erard | (Amazon) | Oct. 31, 2011 |
| Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words | Michael Erard | (Bookshop | Amazon) | May 3, 2025 |
| Um…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean | Michael Erard | (Amazon) | Dec. 1, 2012 |
| English Pronouncing Dictionary | Daniel Jones, Roach, Jane Setter, John Esling | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jul. 6, 2024 |
| Marines and Helicopters 1962-1973 | William R. Fails | (Amazon) | Apr. 1, 2017 |
| Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language | Deborah Fallows | (Amazon) | Dec. 11, 2010 |
| The Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases | Anna Farkas | (Amazon) | Apr. 20, 2024 |
| Americanisms, Old and New: A Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Colloquialisms | John S. Farmer | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 12, 2022 |
| A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL | Stefan Fatsis | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 20, 2025 |
| Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) The Modern Dictionary | Stefan Fatsis | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 20, 2025 |
| Word Freak | Stefan Fatsis | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 20, 2025 |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer | (Amazon) | Nov. 5, 2011 |
| A Time to Keep Silence | Patrick Leigh Fermor | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 9, 2022 |
| Bossypants | Tina Fey | (Amazon) | Jun. 9, 2012 |
| White Oleander | Jane Fitch | (Bookshop | Amazon) | May 11, 2024 |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 26, 2022 |
| Script & Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting | Kitty Burns Florey | (Amazon) | Feb. 23, 2009 |
| The Rise of the Creative Class | Richard Florida | (Amazon) | Mar. 18, 2017 |
| Field Guide to Birds of the United States and Canada | Ted Floyd | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 15, 2025 |
| New American Standard Bible | The Lockman Foundation | (Amazon) | Dec. 10, 2011 |
| Passport to the Pub: The Tourist’s Guide to Pub Etiquette | Kate Fox | (Amazon) | Oct. 6, 2012 |
| Beowulf | Burton Raffel, Roberta Frank | (Amazon) | Oct. 10, 2014 |
| The Shakespeare Name Dictionary | J. Madison Madison Davis, Daniel A. Frankforter | (Amazon) | Nov. 4, 2017 |
| Armadillos and Old Lace | Kinky Friedman | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 26, 2022 |
| Just My Type: A Book About Fonts | Simon Garfield | (Amazon) | Jul. 27, 2019, Feb. 9, 2013, May 5, 2012, Nov. 20, 2010 |
| Garner’s Modern English Usage | Bryan Garner | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 23, 2022 |
| Modern American Usage | Bryan Garner | (Amazon) | Oct. 3, 2009 |
| Quack This Way | David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner | (Amazon) | Dec. 14, 2013 |
| Language and Life on Ocracoke: The Living History of the Brogue | Jeffrey Reaser and Walt Wolfram, and Candy Gaskill | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jul. 19, 2025 |
| A Temple of Texts | William Gass | (Amazon) | Jun. 23, 2018 |
| The Book of Sun-Dials | Margaret Scott Gatty | Feb. 25, 2023 | |
| Gesture: A Slim Guide | Lauren Gawne | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Aug. 16, 2025 |
| The Ring of Words | Peter Gilliver | Dec. 4, 2015 | |
| A Dictionary of Mexican-American Proverbs | Mark Glazer | (Amazon) | Jan. 23, 2010 |
| An Episode of Sparrows | Rumer GOdden | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 10, 2022 |
| Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Nov. 12, 2016 | |
| Canadian English: A Linguistic Reader | Elaine Gold | (Amazon) | May 31, 2025 |
| A Jazz Lexicon | Robert S. Gold | (Amazon) | Apr. 20, 2024 |
| For 2 Cents Plain | Harry Golden | (Amazon) | Mar. 23, 2024 |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Dec. 11, 2015 | |
| In Other Words: A Memoir | Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by translator Ann Goldstein | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 7, 2026 |
| Whiteout | Jessica Goodfellow | (Amazon) | May 27, 2017 |
| Speaking and Language: Defence of Poetry | Paul. Goodman | (Amazon) | Oct. 20, 2018 |
| Webster’s Third New International Dictionary | Merriam-Webster, Philip Babcock Gove | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 11, 2026 |
| Webster’s New International Dictionary | Philip Babcock Gove | (Amazon) | Feb. 3, 2012 |
| Beloved Infidel | Sheilah Graham | (Amazon) | Mar. 23, 2019 |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | (Amazon) | Feb. 5, 2011 |
| The Prisoner of Azkaban | J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré | (Amazon) | Nov. 11, 2017 |
| Overview: A New Perspective of Earth | Benjamin Grant | (Amazon) | Dec. 3, 2016 |
| Exits from the Pearly Gates | Lucretia Graves | (Amazon) | Oct. 1, 2011 |
| Word-Book of Virginia Folk-Speech | Bennett Wood Green | Jul. 27, 2019, Feb. 9, 2013, Jun. 23, 2012, May 5, 2012 | |
| Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection | John Green | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 21, 2026 |
| The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 21, 2026 |
| Green’s Dictionary of Slang | Jonathon Green | (Amazon) | Nov. 12, 2016, Oct. 25, 2013, Apr. 30, 2011 |
| Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Can’t Be Tamed | Lane Greene | (Amazon) | Dec. 22, 2018 |
| Menaphon | Robert Greene | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 9, 2024 |
| Grimm’s Fairy Tales | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 10, 2024 |
| A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue | Francis Grose | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 15, 2023, Dec. 31, 2016, Mar. 10, 2012 |
| Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism | Grosjean | (Amazon) | Feb. 10, 2018 |
| The Magicians | Lev Grossman | Dec. 11, 2015 | |
| Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You | Mardy Grothe | (Amazon) | May 21, 2011 |
| Never Let a Kiss Fool You or a Fool Kiss You | Mardy Grothe | (Amazon) | Jun. 3, 2023 |
| Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary (1943) | Noah Webster, Publishers Guild | (Amazon) | Jan. 16, 2010 |
| Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott (Gutenberg | Oct. 25, 2025 | |
| Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 19, 2025 |
| Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape | Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Feb. 20, 2021 |
| Homeground: A Guide to the American Landscape | Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney | (Amazon) | Apr. 4, 2020 |
| Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape | Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney | (Amazon) | Dec. 21, 2019 |
| Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing | Constance Hale | (Amazon) | Dec. 15, 2012 |
| Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood | Nathan Hale | (Amazon) | Dec. 22, 2018 |
| Dictionary of American Regional English | Frederic Gomes Cassidy and Joan Houston Hall | (Amazon) | Feb. 21, 2026, Oct. 26, 2024, Mar. 12, 2022, Nov. 18, 2017, Jul. 22, 2017, Feb. 4, 2017, Oct. 8, 2016, Oct. 31, 2014, Jan. 25, 2014, Feb. 9, 2013, Dec. 15, 2012, Jun. 2, 2012, Apr. 21, 2012, Feb. 10, 2012, Dec. 10, 2011, Oct. 8, 2011 |
| Letters from the West by James Hall | James Hall | (Amazon) | Feb. 16, 2019 |
| Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English | Michael B. Montgomery and Joseph S. Hall | (Amazon) | Jul. 10, 2021, May 28, 2011 |
| Sniglets | Rich Hall | (Amazon) | Sep. 13, 2025 |
| Baboon | Kate Banks and Georg Hallensleben | (Amazon) | May 16, 2009 |
| The Night Worker | Kate Banks and Georg Hallensleben | (Amazon) | May 16, 2009 |
| They Glass Key | Dashiell Hammett | (Amazon) | Dec. 17, 2011 |
| Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 | Mark Hanna | (Amazon) | Apr. 28, 2018 |
| Orbital | Samantha Harvey | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 19, 2025 |
| Education in the Kindergarten | Josphine Foster and Neith Headley | (Amazon) | Jan. 28, 2023 |
| Beowulf: A New Translation | Maria Dahvana Headley | (Bookshop | Amazon | Link) | Jan. 9, 2021 |
| Beowulf: A New Verse Translation | Seamus Heaney | (Amazon) | Dec. 18, 2010 |
| Blue Highways | William Least Heat-Moon | (Amazon) | Nov. 7, 2014 |
| Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It | Jennifer Michael Hecht | (Amazon) | Feb. 11, 2017 |
| The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives | Jennifer Michael Hecht | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jul. 7, 2023 |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 15, 2025, Oct. 8, 2011 |
| Space Cadet | Robert A. Heinlein | (Amazon) | Dec. 22, 2018 |
| The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English | Michael Montgomery and Jennifer Heinmiller | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Feb. 7, 2026, Nov. 23, 2024, Oct. 26, 2024, May 28, 2022, Aug. 7, 2021, Jul. 10, 2021 |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | Dec. 11, 2015 | |
| Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell | Gabe Henry | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Feb. 21, 2026, Jun. 14, 2025 |
| The Histories | Herodotus | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Sep. 24, 2022 |
| Every Man for Himself and God Against All | Werner Herzog | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 6, 2024 |
| Colossal Words for Kids: 75 Tremendous Words: Neatly Defined to Stick in the Mind | Collette Hiller | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Aug. 3, 2024 |
| De Doctrina Christiana | St. Augustine of Hippo | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Feb. 25, 2023 |
| The African Book of Names | Askhari Johnson Hodari | (Amazon) | Sep. 14, 2019 |
| Carnal Knowledge: A Navel Gazer’s Dictionary of Anatomy | Charles Hodgson | (Amazon) | Dec. 3, 2011 |
| Full of Beans | Jennifer L. Holm | (Amazon) | Jun. 3, 2017 |
| The Guardian Angel | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Jan. 26, 2019 | |
| The Iliad | Homer | (Amazon) | Feb. 22, 2020, Dec. 7, 2019, Apr. 10, 2015 |
| The Expression of Negation | Laurence R. Horn | (Amazon) | Jun. 2, 2012 |
| Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius | Nick Hornby | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jan. 28, 2023 |
| The Essential Book of Weather Lore | Leslie Alan Horvitz | Apr. 23, 2022 | |
| And the Mountains Echoed | Khaled Hosseini | (Amazon) | Oct. 5, 2013 |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | (Amazon) | Oct. 5, 2013 |
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| Macbeth | William Shakespeare | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 20, 2021 |
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| Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries | Kory Stamper | (Amazon) | Dec. 9, 2017, May 7, 2017 |
| Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library | Andrew Stauffer | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jul. 24, 2021 |
| The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language | Ilan Stavans | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 1, 2023 |
| Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language | Ilan Stavans | (Amazon) | Mar. 25, 2017, Nov. 10, 2012 |
| CDC | William Steig | (Amazon) | May 13, 2016 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 2, 2023 |
| Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1 | Neal Stephenson | (Amazon) | Sep. 13, 2008 |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | Apr. 17, 2015 | |
| American Place Names | George R. Stewart | (Amazon) | Nov. 2, 2019 |
| Names on the Land | George R. Stewart | (Amazon) | Nov. 2, 2019 |
| In Pursuit of The Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed The World | Ian Stewart | (Amazon) | Dec. 21, 2013 |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Aug. 16, 2025, Oct. 24, 2020 |
| Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury | Paul Strohm | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Feb. 13, 2015 |
| Power and Politeness in the Workplace: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Talk at Work | Janet Holmes and Maria Stubbe | (Amazon) | Nov. 2, 2019 |
| If I Ran the Zoo | Dr. Suess | (Amazon) | Mar. 26, 2022 |
| Intensifying Similes in English | T. Hilding Svartengren | (Amazon) | Mar. 14, 2009 |
| Learner English | Michael Swan | (Amazon) | Sep. 24, 2011 |
| Beneath the Second Sun | Adam Sweeting | (Amazon) | Jan. 17, 2009 |
| A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation | Jonathan Swift | Feb. 2, 2019, Feb. 27, 2015 | |
| Polite Conversation | Jonathan Swift | (Amazon) | Oct. 3, 2014 |
| Imaginary Friends and the People Who Create Them | Marjorie Taylor | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jul. 19, 2025 |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jul. 10, 2021 |
| Our American Cousin | Tom Taylor | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jan. 20, 2024 |
| The Dictionary of Minor Planet Names | Lutz D. Schmadel /td> | (Amazon) | Jul. 20, 2024 |
| The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861 | Henry David Thoreau | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Aug. 17, 2024 |
| Handwriting in America: A Cultural History | Tamara Plakins Thornton | (Amazon) | May 21, 2011, Oct. 10, 2009 |
| The Memory Theater | Karin Tidbeck | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Sep. 10, 2022 |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 7, 2024, Oct. 10, 2014 |
| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | Dec. 4, 2015 | |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | Dec. 11, 2015 | |
| A Dictionary of Sports Studies | Alan Tomlinson | (Amazon) | Dec. 16, 2017 |
| Da Word | Lee A. Tonouchi | (Amazon) | Nov. 10, 2018 |
| Shorter Oxford English Dictionary | William R. Trumble | (Amazon) | Sep. 24, 2011, Oct. 3, 2009 |
| Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern | Jin Tsu | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 11, 2023 |
| The Guns of August | Barbara W. Tuchman | (Amazon) | Dec. 22, 2018 |
| Practicing History: Selected Essays | Barbara W. Tuchman | (Amazon) | Jul. 12, 2016 |
| The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories | Mark Twain | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 11, 2023 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Feb. 22, 2025, Jan. 20, 2024, Apr. 1, 2017, Apr. 17, 2015, Oct. 24, 2010 |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | (Bookshop | Amazon) | May 7, 2022 |
| Autobiography | Mark Twain | (Amazon) | Oct. 27, 2012 |
| "The Awful German Language" | Mark Twain | Apr. 25, 2014 | |
| The Innocents Abroad | Mark Twain | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 5, 2023, Dec. 8, 2018 |
| Roughing It | Mark Twain | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 5, 2023, Dec. 8, 2018 |
| The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson | Mark Twain | Jul. 8, 2017 | |
| Collins English Dictionary | Collins Uk | (Amazon) | Nov. 17, 2012 |
| King James Bible | Unknown | (Amazon) | Feb. 3, 2012 |
| Mila 18 | Leon Uris | Dec. 11, 2015 | |
| Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience | Shaun Usher | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jun. 17, 2023, Dec. 12, 2014, Jun. 27, 2014 |
| French and Creole in Louisiana | Albert Valdman | (Amazon) | Dec. 12, 2009 |
| Hours with the Mystics | Robert Vaughn | (Amazon) | Jun. 27, 2020 |
| A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, People | Jay Edwards, Nicolas Kariouk Pecquet du Bellay de Verton | (Amazon) | May 28, 2022 |
| The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English | Hana Videen | (Bookshop | Amazon) | May 28, 2022 |
| Indian Names in Michigan | Virgil Vogel | (Bookshop | Amazon) | May 20, 2023 |
| Cat’s Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | (Amazon) | Feb. 6, 2015 |
| The Lexicon of Comicana | Mort Walker | (Amazon) | Jan. 21, 2012 |
| Mort Walker’s Private Scrapbook | Mort Walker | (Amazon) | Feb. 28, 2009 |
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | (Amazon) | Dec. 15, 2018, Mar. 12, 2014 |
| Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae | John Wallis | Aug. 3, 2024 | |
| Passing English of the Victorian Era: A Dictionary of Heterodox English, Slang and Phrase | J. Redding Ware | (Amazon) | Oct. 8, 2016 |
| Passing English of the Victorian Era | James Redding Ware | Sep. 25, 2015 | |
| Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark | Cecelia Watson | (Amazon) | Nov. 2, 2019 |
| Calvin and Hobbes | Bill Watterson | (Amazon) | Jun. 21, 2013 |
| Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels | Valerie Weaver-Zercher | (Amazon) | Dec. 14, 2013 |
| A Dictionary of Etymology | Hensleigh Wedgwood | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jan. 9, 2021 |
| Our Appalachia | Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 26, 2022 |
| The Oxford English Dictionary | J. Simpson, E. Weiner | (Amazon) | Jun. 17, 2016, Nov. 17, 2012, Nov. 3, 2012, Nov. 5, 2011 |
| The Case is Closed | Patricia Wentworth | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jul. 19, 2025 |
| Chains and Freedom | Peter Wheeler | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 11, 2023 |
| Charlotte’s Web | E.B. White | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 29, 2025, Jun. 27, 2020, Oct. 14, 2017 |
| Stuart Little | E.B. White | (Amazon) | Jun. 27, 2020 |
| The Trumpet of the Swan | E.B. White | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 15, 2025 |
| The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition | William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White | (Amazon) | Jun. 27, 2020, Dec. 5, 2014 |
| The Three Pigs | David Wiesner | (Amazon) | Nov. 12, 2011 |
| Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Sep. 9, 2023, Jun. 6, 2014 |
| The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 23, 2024, May 28, 2022, Apr. 4, 2020 |
| The Birds of Opulence | Crystal Wilkinson | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jul. 25, 2020 |
| Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks | Crystal Wilkinson | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jan. 18, 2025 |
| Gratitude for Shoes: Growing up Poor in the Smokies | Cleo Hicks Williams | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 1, 2023 |
| Orpheus Descending | Tennessee Williams | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Sep. 13, 2025 |
| White Mule | William Carlos Williams | (Amazon) | Dec. 12, 2014 |
| The Odyssey | Homer, Emily Wilson | (Amazon) | Dec. 7, 2019 |
| Bear Snores On | Karma Wilson | (Amazon) | Dec. 13, 2008 |
| A Dictionary of Similes | Frank Jenners Wilstach | Jan. 14, 2012 | |
| Word Myths | Dave Wilton | (Amazon) | Dec. 15, 2007 |
| The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | Simon Winchester | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jul. 7, 2023, Mar. 26, 2022 |
| A King’s Story | Edward, Duke of Windsor | (Amazon) | Mar. 11, 2023 |
| Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago | Lisa Winer | (Amazon) | Jan. 18, 2020, Oct. 16, 2015 |
| Jaqueline Winspear | Jaqueline Winspear | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 21, 2024 |
| A Rocket in My Pocket: The Rhymes and Chants of Young Americans | Carl Withers | Jul. 27, 2019 | |
| The Craptastic Guide to Pseudo-Swearing | Michelle Witte | (Amazon) | Mar. 16, 2013 |
| The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr. 23, 2022 |
| The Night in Question: Stories | Tobias Wolff | (Amazon) | Sep. 13, 2008 |
| The 5-Minute Linguist | Caroline Myrick, Walt Wolfram | (Amazon) | Feb. 8, 2020 |
| Winter’s Bone | Daniel Woodrell | (Amazon) | Apr. 4, 2014 |
| Gadsby | Ernest Vincent Wright | (Amazon) | Feb. 2, 2019 |
| The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World | Andrea Wulf | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 11, 2021 |
| Gobsmacked: The British Invasion of American English | Ben Yagoda | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec. 7, 2024 |
| An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | Ed Yong | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 26, 2022 |
| Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science | Carol Kaesuk Yoon | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar. 12, 2022 |
| Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds | Jess Zaffaris | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov. 15, 2025 |
| Hug a Bull: An Ode to Animal Dads | Aaron Zenz | (Amazon) | Jun. 21, 2013 |
| I Love Ewe: An Ode to Animal Moms | Aaron Zenz | (Amazon) | Jun. 21, 2013 |
| Lo Zingarelli | Nicola Zingarelli | (Amazon) | Jun. 4, 2022 |
| On Writing Well | William Zinsser | (Amazon) | Jun. 14, 2013 |
| Gidget! | Frederick Kohner, Kathy Kohner Zuckerman | (Amazon) | Dec. 21, 2019 |
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| Associated Press Stylebook | — | Jan. 30, 2010 | |
| The Century Dictionary | — | Jul. 25, 2020, Feb. 5, 2011 | |
| Cordell Collection of Dictionaries | — | Jul. 12, 2016 | |
| First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life | — | (Amazon) | Dec. 8, 2018 |
| Glossary of Arctic and Subarctic Terms | — | Jan. 15, 2022 | |
| Scots National Dictionary | — | Mar. 23, 2019 | |
| Wicked Bible | — | Feb. 3, 2012 |