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Loved Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss? If its nonfiction, language and linguistics and funny hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way and The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

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