-
Your next favorite book
is waiting.
If you like Melvyn Bragg, try these authors:
(how we choose these read-alikes)
David Bellos is the director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, where he is also a professor of French and comparative literature. He has won many awards for his ... (more)
If you enjoyed:
The Adventure of English
Try:
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
by David Bellos
Guy Deutscher is the author of Through the Language Glass and The Unfolding of Language. Formerly a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages at the University of Leiden ... (more)
If you enjoyed:
The Adventure of English
Try:
Through the Language Glass
by Guy Deutscher
Margalit Fox is a public speaker and an award-winning reporter in the famed obituary news department of The New York Times as well a former New York Times Book Review editor. Fox has a master's degrees in linguistics from ... (more)
If you enjoyed:
The Adventure of English
Try:
Talking Hands
by Margalit Fox
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
