Page-turners for language lovers: our favourite books about language & travel

Need a recommendation for something new to read?

In this episode, we chat about our favourite books about language, travel or both (and a few books that we’re planning to read soon)! From novels that whisk you away to another place where you find yourself surrounded by new sounds and experiences, to non-fiction reads about how language is changing and where it has come from, let us tell you a bit about the language- and travel-related reads that have inspired, enlightened and delighted us over the last few years.

 

You’ll find links to all the books we mention in the show notes below.

 

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Episode Links

• Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing by Gretchen McCulloch

• Ep #039 - Enthusiastic about linguistics: A chat with Gretchen & Lauren from Lingthusiasm

• The Grape Series by Laura Bradbury

• Almost French by Sarah Turnbull

• All Good Things by Sarah Turnbull

• Lingo and Babel by Gaston Dorren

• Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop

• Dreaming in Chinese... and Discovering What Makes a Billion People Tick by Deborah Fallows

• Mother Tongue: The Story Of The English Language by Bill Bryson

• How Language Works by David Crystal

• Languages Are Good For Us by Sophie Hardach

• The Yield by Tara June Winch

• Empires Of The Word: A Language History Of The World by Nicholas Ostler

• How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel Everett

• The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

• I Heart Rome by Maria Pasquale

• Ciao Bella!: Six Take Italy by Kate Langbroek

• Still Life by Sarah Winman

• La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italy and the most Enchanting Language in the World by Dianne Hales

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

• Not A Year Off: The Story Behind Language Stories by Lindsay Williams | Language Stories podcast