What to Read After Empires of the Word
Readers who loved Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Empires of the Word 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 Empires of the Word
The Unfolding of Language
The Language Instinct
Through the Language Glass
The adventure of English
Babel No More
Our magnificent bastard tongue the untold history of English
The stories of English
Language Myths
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
The First Word
In the Land of Invented Languages
The Cambridge encyclopedia of language
In Search of the Indo-Europeans
You Are What You Speak
The Stuff of Thought
Lost Languages
How Language Works
Etymologicon
Language Hoax
The power of Babel
What Language Is
The Loom of Language
Ad Infinitum
The 10,000 Year Explosion