What to Read After They have a word for it
Readers who loved They have a word for it by Howard Rheingold keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where They have a word for it 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 They have a word for it
The Superior Person's Book of Words
Descriptionary
Get thee to a punnery
How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm
Letter Perfect
My Grammar and I
Anguished English
Talk to the Hand
The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language
A continuous harmony
The big book of beastly mispronunciations
Verbatim
Babel No More
Why you say it
Woe is I
Troublesome words
Oxymoronica
Excuse Me, but I Was Next...
The Funniest Thing You Never Said
Unruly places
The Right Stuff
Foundation
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Good Omens