The white goddess

Robert Graves

1948 ★ 4.0

Words from the Myths

Isaac Asimov

1961 ★ 5.0

The Professor and the Madman CD

Simon Winchester

1998 ★ 3.5

S/He

Minnie Bruce Pratt

2005

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

John McWhorter

2009

The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language

David Crystal

1995

Keywords

Raymond Williams

1983

Word origins and their romantic stories

Wilfred John Funk

1950

What language is

John H. McWhorter

2011

Words of science, and the history behind them

Isaac Asimov

1959

A Sanskrit-English dictionary

Ernst Leumann, Carl Cappeller, Monier Monier-Williams

1872

Wisdom sits in places

Keith H. Basso

1996

Girl in landscape

Jonathan Lethem

1998

Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

Samson Raphael Hirsch

2000

Words on the Move

John McWhorter

2016

Canterbury tales

Barbara Cohen

1988

Harper's English grammar

John B. Opdycke

1941

Origins

Eric Partridge

1958

Learn to write Chinese characters

Johan Björkstén

1994

An universal etymological English dictionary

John Darby, Nathan Bailey, Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)

1721

Kill or get killed

Rex Applegate

1976

The concise Oxford dictionary of English etymology

T. F. Hoad

1993

Growth and structure of the English language

Otto Jespersen

1905

History in English words

Owen Barfield

1954

Word myths

David Wilton

2004

Africanisms in the Gullah dialect

Lorenzo Dow Turner

1969

Words in Genesis

Isaac Asimov

1962

The language of food

Dan Jurafsky

2014

A comprehensive etymological dictionary of the English language

Ernest Klein

1966

A Sumer Aryan Dictionary

L. A. Waddell

2004