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
The First Word
UNFOLDING OF LANGUAGE.
Metaphors We Live By
Syntax
English with an Accent
The story of English
What language is
Ad Infinitum
A course in phonetics
Language Myths
The Cambridge encyclopedia of language
The Language Instinct
The Stuff of Thought
Swearing
Le Ton beau de Marot
Contemporary linguistics
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Reflections on language
Words, words, words
How the Mind Works
The Blank Slate
The better angels of our nature