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) | Apr 4, 2026, 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) | May 23, 2026, 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) | May 30, 2026, 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) | May 2, 2026, 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) | May 16, 2026, 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) | May 23, 2026, 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 |
| Why We Talk Funny | Valerie Fridland | (Bookshop | Amazon) | May 8, 2026 |
| 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) | Apr 18, 2026, 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 |
| The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers | Andrew T. Huse, Bárbara Cruz, and Jeff Houck | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jun 3, 2023 |
| Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of the Emoji | Keith Houston | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Aug 30, 2025 |
| Shady Characters | Keith Houston | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Aug 30, 2025 |
| Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks | Keith Houston’s | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jul 6, 2024 |
| Essay on the Modifications of Clouds | Luke Howard | (Amazon) | Oct 27, 2018 |
| Madam Dorrington of the Dene | William Howitt | (Amazon) | Mar 21, 2009 |
| Encyclopedia of Swearing | Geoffrey Hughes | (Amazon) | Dec 21, 2013, May 23, 2009 |
| The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes | Langston Hughes | Feb 27, 2015 | |
| Simple Stakes a Claim | Langston Hughes | (Amazon) | Jul 10, 2021 |
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| Ulysses | James Joyce | (Amazon) | Jan 24, 2009 |
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| Getting Started with Latin | William E. Linney | (Amazon) | Nov 9, 2009 |
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| A History of Reading | Alberto Manguel | (Amazon) | Mar 21, 2014 |
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| The Dictionary Wars | Peter Martin | (Amazon) | Jul 13, 2019 |
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| The American Language | H. L. Mencken | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jan 26, 2026 |
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| Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary | Merriam-Webster | (Amazon) | Oct 3, 2009 |
| Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage | Merriam-Webster | (Amazon) | Apr 2, 2011 |
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| Dictionary of American Proverbs | Wolfgang Mieder | (Amazon) | Jan 15, 2011 |
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| Scènes de la vie de bohème | Henri Murger | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar 29, 2025 |
| The Prodigal Tongue | Lynne Murphy | (Amazon) | Apr 14, 2018 |
| The Life and Real Adventures of Hamilton Murray | Hamilton Murray | (Amazon) | Sep 26, 2014 |
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| The Virgin Islands Dictionary | Kareem Nelson-Hull | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Oct 10, 2020 |
| The Knife of Never Letting Go | Patrick Ness | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jun 14, 2025 |
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| Lost in Lexicon: An Adventure in Words and Numbers | Pendred Noyce | (Amazon) | Dec 11, 2010 |
| The Years of Talking Dangerously | Geoffrey Nunberg | (Amazon) | Dec 12, 2009 |
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| The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary | Sarah Ogilvie | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Nov 11, 2023 |
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| In The Land of Invented Languages | Arika Okrent | (Amazon) | Mar 29, 2013 |
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| The Concise Usage and Abusage | Eric Partridge | (Amazon) | Oct 27, 2012 |
| A Dictionary of the Underworld | Eric Partridge | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Dec 11, 2021 |
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| Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin | Ann Patty | (Amazon) | Jul 29, 2016 |
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| A Void | Georges Perec | (Amazon) | Feb 2, 2019 |
| The Satyricon | Petronius | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar 6, 2021 |
| Anglicisms, Neologisms, and Dynamic French | Dr. Michael D. Picone | (Amazon) | Jun 13, 2014 |
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| Dialects of Indian English | Sailaja Pingali | (Amazon) | Mar 12, 2014 |
| The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century | Steven Pinker | (Amazon) | Dec 12, 2014, Dec 5, 2014 |
| The Stuff of Thought | Steven Pinker | Dec 11, 2015 | |
| Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud | Robert Pinsky | (Amazon) | Jan 23, 2010 |
| The Pun Also Rises | John Pollack | (Amazon) | May 28, 2011 |
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| CRC Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants | Umberto Quattrocchi | (Amazon) | Dec 30, 2023 |
| American Tacos: A History and Guide | José Ralat | (Amazon) | Jun 6, 2020 |
| The Man Who Moiled For Gold | David G. Rasmussen | (Amazon) | Dec 8, 2012 |
| The Yearling | Marjorie Rawlings | (Amazon) | Jun 9, 2012 |
| A Hand-Book of Proverbs | Henry George Bohn and John Ray | (Amazon) | Mar 16, 2013 |
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| Dictionary of English Surnames | Colin D. Rogers | (Amazon) | Dec 21, 2013 |
| The Surname Detective | Colin D. Rogers | (Amazon) | Dec 21, 2013 |
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| The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary | Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels | (Amazon) | Mar 25, 2017 |
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| A Handbook of Varieties of English | Bernd Kortmann and Edgar W. Schneider | (Amazon) | Apr 17, 2010 |
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| Henry V | William Shakespeare | Oct 23, 2015 | |
| Henry VI | William Shakespeare | (Amazon) | Jul 12, 2016 |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Mar 20, 2021 |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | William Shakespeare | (Amazon) | Jun 20, 2014 |
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| Troilus and Cressida | William Shakespeare | (Bookshop | Amazon) | May 3, 2025 |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | (Bookshop | Amazon) | May 8, 2026 |
| Yiddish: Biography of a Language | Jeffrey Shandler | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Jun 22, 2024 |
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| The New Yale Book of Quotations | Fred Shapiro | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Aug 21, 2021, Oct 25, 2014 |
| The Correct Order of Biscuits | Adam Sharp | (Amazon) | Apr 1, 2023 |
| Euphemisms That Get on My You-Know-Whats | Adam Sharp | (Bookshop | Amazon) | Apr 1, 2023 |
| The Wheel is Spinning But the Hamster is Dead: A Journey Around the World in Idioms, Proverbs and General Nonsense | Adam Sharp | (Amazon) | Sep 23, 2023 |
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| Obamamania!: The English Language, Barackafied | the Editors of Slate | (Amazon) | Jan 17, 2009 |
| Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth | Sarah Smarsh | (Amazon) | Dec 15, 2018 |
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| Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries | Kory Stamper | (Amazon) | Dec 9, 2017, May 7, 2017 |
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| 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 |
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| Names on the Land | George R. Stewart | (Amazon) | Nov 2, 2019 |
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| 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) | Apr 4, 2026, 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) | May 23, 2026, 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) | May 23, 2026, 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 |
| The American Heritage Dictionary Online | — | Oct 25, 2014 | |
| Associated Press Stylebook | — | Jan 30, 2010 | |
| Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art | — | (Bookshop | Amazon) | May 8, 2026 |
| 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 | |
| Three Soldiers | — | (Bookshop | Amazon) | May 8, 2026 |
| Walden | — | (Bookshop | Amazon) | May 8, 2026 |
| Why We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind Our Accents | — | (Bookshop | Amazon) | May 8, 2026 |
| Wicked Bible | — | Feb 3, 2012 |