What to Read After In the Land of Invented Languages
Readers who loved In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where In the Land of Invented Languages 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 In the Land of Invented Languages
Through the Language Glass
The Mother Tongue
Babel No More
Empires of the Word
Our magnificent bastard tongue the untold history of English
The Art of Language Invention
UNFOLDING OF LANGUAGE.
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
The Pun Also Rises
Horologicon
The Stuff of Thought
The First Word
The Secret Life of Pronouns
You Are What You Speak
Talking Hands
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Lost Languages
Etymologicon
The Language Instinct
The power of Babel
Found in Translation
Describing Morphosyntax
From Elvish to Klingon
What Language Is