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Reference Books for Readers & Book Clubs
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Search results: The best new books - Includes books that provide themed discussion guides and advice on what to read next, and books about reading, writing, and the English language.
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
by Simon Garfield
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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| A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you? |
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 29 Sep 2009
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| The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as “a survivor’s guide to life in the chattering classes.” |
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Shakespeare
by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover: Oct 2005
Paperback: 1 Nov 2006
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Shakespeare: The Biography is quite unlike other more analytic biographies that have been written.
Ackroyd uses his skill, his extraordinary knowledge, and his historical intuition to craft this major full-scale book on one of the most towering figures of the English language. |
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
by Melvyn Bragg
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 1 Sep 2006
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| An enthralling story not only of power, religion, and trade but also of people and how they changed, and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English. |
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
Hardcover: Apr 2004
Paperback: 11 Apr 2006
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| 'Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a sensation? Truss serves up a delightful, unabashedly strict and sometimes snobby little book, with cheery Britishisms dotting pages that express a more international righteous indignation.' |
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Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
by June Casagrande
Paperback: 28 Mar 2006
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| The antidote to Eats, Shoots and Leaves - an uproarious and very American language book for those who are tired of getting pulled over by the grammar police |
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
by A. J. Jacobs
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 4 Oct 2005
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| Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. |
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester
Hardcover: Sep 2003
Paperback: 1 Oct 2004
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| A scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the Oxford English Dictionary. Browse an exclusive excerpt at BookBrowse. |
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