What to Read After How language works
Readers who loved How language works by David Crystal keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where How language works 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 How language works
The Language Instinct
Through the Language Glass
Words and Rules
Empires of the Word
The Stuff of Thought
Why you say it
Word myths
UNFOLDING OF LANGUAGE.
The First Word
The Power of Babel
Word Play
Language and mind
Second Language Acquisition
Essential introductory linguistics
The stories of English
The Cambridge encyclopedia of language
Course in general linguistics
Language Myths
The Mother Tongue
Wives and daughters
The History of Tom Jones
Possession
The Looking Glass Wars
The Professor and the Madman CD