Recommended Reading

Linguistics

The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the Worldby Joan L. Bybee, Revere Perkins, William PagliucaThe Evolution of Grammar

The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, by Michael Tomasello

Usage Based Models of Language, by Michael Barlow and Suzanne Kemmer

Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation, by Sali Tagliamonte

Regularity in Semantic Change, by Elizabeth C. Traugott and Richard B. Dasher

Modality in Grammar and Discourse, ed. by Joan L. Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman

Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture, ed. by N. J. Enfield

 

Other nonfiction

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, by Jonathan Weiner

A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir, by Sandra Gail Lambert

The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, by Jeremy NarbyStirring the Mud

Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, by Barbara Hurd

Quirks of the Quantum: Postmodernism and Contemporary American Fiction, by Samuel Coale

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, by Pierre Bourdieu

The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language, by Michel Foucault

The Transmission of Affectby Teresa Brennan

An Environmental History of Northeast Floridaby James J. Miller

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, by Benedict Anderson

Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird, by Tim Birkhead

The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination, by Jacob Bronowski

The Mismeasure of Man, by Stephan Jay Gould

Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl

Walden, by Henry David Thoreau

 

Literature

The Appointment, by Herta MüllerA Pale View of Hills

Delirio, by Laura Restrepo

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong

L’écume des jours, by Boris Vian (this one must be read in French)

Euphoria, by Lily King

Heft, by Liz Moore

Immensités: Roman, by Sylvie Germain

Moderato Cantabile, by Marguerite Duras

Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout

The Overstory, by Richard Powers

Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee

A Pale View of Hills, by Kazuo Ishiguro

Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Le Rivage des Syrtes, by Julien Gracq (this one must be read in French)Moderato cantabile

The River’s Memory, by Sandra Gail Lambert

A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki

Those Who Save Us, by Jenna Blum

Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome

TransAtlantic, by Colum McCann

Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, by Samuel Beckett

The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro

Where the Dogstar Never Glows, by Tara L. Masih