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If you loved Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Grammar & Punctuation, Linguistics, Language Arts & Disciplines, and Reference.

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Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Troublesome Words.

Basic Korean A Grammar and Workbook — Andrew Sangpil Byon

Basic Korean A Grammar and Workbook

Andrew Sangpil Byon

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Snails & Monkey Tails A Visual Guide to Punctuation & Symbols — Michael Peter Arndt

Snails & Monkey Tails A Visual Guide to Punctuation & Symbols

Michael Peter Arndt

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

How Words Get Good — Rebecca Lee

How Words Get Good

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Semicolon The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark — Cecelia Watson

Semicolon The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Penguin Guide to Punctuation — Robert Lawrence Trask

The Penguin Guide to Punctuation

Robert Lawrence Trask

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Penguin Pocket Writer’s Handbook — Martin Manser

Penguin Pocket Writer’s Handbook

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Parameter of Aspect

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Queen’s English And How to Use It — Bernard C. Lamb

The Queen’s English And How to Use It

Bernard C. Lamb

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Penguin Writers’ Guides How to Write Better English — Robert Allen

Penguin Writers’ Guides How to Write Better English

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep The Origins of Even More Phrases We Use Every Day — Albert Jack

Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep The Origins of Even More Phrases We Use Every Day

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Steering the Craft A Twenty-first Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story — Ursula K. Le Guin

Steering the Craft A Twenty-first Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

Ursula K. Le Guin

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Horsefeathers and Other Curious Words — Charles Earle Funk

Horsefeathers and Other Curious Words

Charles Earle Funk

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar A Practical Guide — John Whitlam

Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar A Practical Guide

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Introduction to Montague Semantics — D. R. Dowty

Introduction to Montague Semantics

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Proofreading And Punctuation (1907) — Adele Millicent Smith

Proofreading And Punctuation (1907) — Adele Millicent Smith

Adèle Millicent Smith

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Comma Sense Your Guide to Grammar Victory (Punctuation Workbook, Elements of Style) — Ellen Feld

Comma Sense Your Guide to Grammar Victory (Punctuation Workbook, Elements of Style)

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The New Well-tempered Sentence A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed — Karen Elizabeth Gordon

The New Well-tempered Sentence A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Guide to Canadian English Usage The Essential English Resource for Canadian Writers & Editors — Margery Fee

Guide to Canadian English Usage The Essential English Resource for Canadian Writers & Editors

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Cat’s Pyjamas The Penguin Book of Clichés — Julia Cresswell

The Cat’s Pyjamas The Penguin Book of Clichés

Julia Cresswell

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Directionality and Logical Form On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-in-situ — Josef Bayer

Directionality and Logical Form On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-in-situ

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Collins Mini Thesaurus — Pbk

Collins Mini Thesaurus

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers — Chris M. Anson

The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Penguin Writers’ Guides How to Punctuate — George Davidson

Penguin Writers’ Guides How to Punctuate

George Davidson

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Collins Easy Learning Portuguese Phrasebook — Collins UK

Collins Easy Learning Portuguese Phrasebook

Themes: Grammar & Punctuation • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

If Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Grammar & Punctuation, Linguistics, Language Arts & Disciplines and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Andrew Sangpil Byon, Michael Peter Arndt, Rebecca Lee, Cecelia Watson, and others.

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