What to Read After Words and Rules
Readers who loved Words and Rules by Steven Pinker keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Words and Rules 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 Words and Rules
The stories of English
How Language Works
UNFOLDING OF LANGUAGE.
The First Word
Metaphors We Live By
Linguistics Wars
What Language Is
Ad Infinitum
A Course in Phonetics
The story of English
English with an Accent
The Cambridge encyclopedia of language
Language Myths
Syntax
The Language Instinct
The Stuff of Thought
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Contemporary Linguistics
Words, Words, Words
Le Ton beau de Marot
Swearing
Reflections on Language
How the Mind Works
The Blank Slate