What to Read After The English Language
Readers who loved The English Language by David Crystal keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The English Language 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 English Language
History of the English Language
Forgotten English
The Oxford companion to the English language
Watching the English
Language Myths
Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English
A dictionary of modern English usage
Language
Usage and Abusage: a Guide to Good English (Abusus Non Tollit Usum)
King's English
Beyond Training
The story of English in 100 words
Ayoade on Ayoade
The Tiger in the Well
Young Goodman Brown
More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
The ruby in the smoke (Sally Lockhart #1)
Rivers of London
The Buddha of Suburbia
The Gun Seller
The Seagull
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead