What to Read After The Mother Tongue
Readers who loved The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Mother Tongue 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 The Mother Tongue
The adventure of English
The Power of Babel
UNFOLDING OF LANGUAGE.
The stories of English
Neither here nor there
The Lost Continent
In the land of invented languages
Made in America
I'm a stranger here myself
Notes from a small island
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Shakespeare
Down Under (In a Sunburned Country)
The road to Little Dribbling
One Summer
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson African Diary
Troublesome words
The Professor and the Madman CD
Ad Infinitum
Anguished English
When Languages Die
A short history of nearly everything
Eats, Shoots & Leaves