Books like The Mother Tongue

12 books to read next

• The Story of English Robert McCrum 7.0 h
• Saying What You Mean Robert Claiborne 4.9 h
• A History of the English Language Albert Croll Baugh, Albert C. Baugh, Thomas Cable 8.5 h
• The English Verb Michael Lewis 3.3 h
• The Stories of English David Crystal 10.7 h
• English Vocabulary in Use Mike McCarthy, Michael McCarthy, Felicity O'Dell 3.1 h
• Words of Science, and the History Behind Them Isaac Asimov 4.9 h
• Essential College English Norwood Selby, Pamela S. Bledsoe 7.6 h
• The Pun Also Rises John Pollack 3.9 h
• The Routledge History of Literature in English Ronald Carter 10.6 h
• Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue the Untold History of English John H. McWhorter 4.2 h
• A Greek-English Lexicon Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich Passow 32.6 h

How long each takes

The Story of English Robert McCrum 7.0 h Saying What You Mean Robert Claiborne 4.9 h A History of the English Language Albert Croll Baugh, Albert C. Baugh, Thomas Cable 8.5 h The English Verb Michael Lewis 3.3 h The Stories of English David Crystal 10.7 h English Vocabulary in Use Mike McCarthy, Michael McCarthy, Felicity O'Dell 3.1 h Words of Science, and the History Behind Them Isaac Asimov 4.9 h Essential College English Norwood Selby, Pamela S. Bledsoe 7.6 h The Pun Also Rises John Pollack 3.9 h The Routledge History of Literature in English Ronald Carter 10.6 h Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue the Untold History of English John H. McWhorter 4.2 h A Greek-English Lexicon Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich Passow 32.6 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.