John McWhorter Books In Order

1.Word on the Street

Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English

1998 pub |300 pages

2.Losing the Race

Self-Sabotage in Black America

2000 pub |320 pages

3.The Power of Babel

A Natural History of Language

2001 pub |352 pages

4.Authentically Black

2003 pub |304 pages

5.Doing Our Own Thing

The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care

2003 pub |304 pages

6.The Story of Human Language

2004 pub

7.Winning the Race

Beyond the Crisis in Black America

2005 pub |434 pages

8.Understanding Linguistics

The Science of Language

2008 pub

9.All about the Beat

Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America

2008 pub |186 pages

10.Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

The Untold History of English

2008 pub |230 pages

11.What Language Is

And What It Isn't and What It Could Be

2011 pub |228 pages

12.Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage

2012 pub

13.Language A to Z

2013 pub |7 pages

14.The Language Hoax

Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language

2014 pub |182 pages

15.Words on the Move

Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still

2016 pub |257 pages

16.Talking Back, Talking Black

Truths About America's Lingua Franca

2016 pub |192 pages

17.Language Families of the World

2019 pub

18.Nine Nasty Words

English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever

2021 pub |286 pages

19.Woke Racism

How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

2021 pub |224 pages