What to Read After Language, Thought, and Reality
Readers who loved Language, Thought, and Reality by Benjamin Lee Whorf keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Language, Thought, and Reality is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Language, Thought, and Reality
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Historical Linguistics
Language
Politeness
Course in general linguistics
Syntactic Structures
Metaphors We Live By
Masters of Mankind
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
Describing Morphosyntax
Sociolinguistics
Language and Power
An introduction to functional grammar
Sorting Things Out
Usage and Abusage: a Guide to Good English (Abusus Non Tollit Usum)
Pedagogy of the oppressed
V for Vendetta
Mrs. Dalloway
Robinson Crusoe
Old Man and the Sea
Norwegian Wood
Things Fall Apart
Gone With the Wind
The Picture of Dorian Gray