• The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

by Guy Deutscher

• Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages

by Guy Deutscher

• A Little Book of Language

by David Crystal

• Empires of the Word : A Language History of the World

by Nicholas Ostler

• The Secret Life of Pronouns : What Our Words Say about Us

by Robert Fass and James W. Pennebaker

• The Language Wars : A History of Proper English

by Henry Hitchings