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The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.
4.18 average rating, · 87.9k ratings
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4.10 average rating, · 22.9k ratings
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Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4.26 average rating, · 16k ratings
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Politics and the English Language
George Orwell
4.30 average rating, · 9.1k ratings
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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
4.05 average rating, · 11.2k ratings
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
John Koenig
4.44 average rating, · 6.5k ratings
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Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever
Richard Scarry
4.34 average rating, · 6.9k ratings
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On Certainty
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4.16 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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Landmarks
Robert Macfarlane
4.23 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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Naming and Necessity
Saul A. Kripke
4.01 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Stephen Fry
4.06 average rating, · 4k ratings
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Several Short Sentences About Writing
Verlyn Klinkenborg
4.13 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Poetry, Language, Thought
Martin Heidegger
4.11 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Japan in honderd kleine stukjes
Paulien Cornelisse
4.07 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Paulien Cornelisse
4.11 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words
Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
4.17 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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The Awful German Language / Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache
Mark Twain
4.12 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints
Nancy Kress
4.05 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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Wheelock's Latin
Frederic M. Wheelock
4.13 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Eunoia
Christian Bök
4.03 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Der Herr der Ringe. Anhänge und Register
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.12 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
John Bartlett
4.28 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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You Took the Last Bus Home
Brian Bilston
4.23 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is Translated
Eliot Weinberger
4.26 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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