John McWhorter Books In Order

1.Word on the Street

Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English

2.Losing the Race

Self-Sabotage in Black America

3.The Power of Babel

A Natural History of Language

4.Authentically Black

5.Doing Our Own Thing

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

6.The Story of Human Language

7.Winning the Race

Beyond the Crisis in Black America

8.Understanding Linguistics

The Science of Language

9.All about the Beat

Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America

10.Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

The Untold History of English

11.What Language Is

And What It Isn't and What It Could Be

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

13.Language A to Z

14.The Language Hoax

Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language

15.Words on the Move

Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still

16.Talking Back, Talking Black

Truths About America's Lingua Franca

17.Language Families of the World

18.Nine Nasty Words

English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever

19.Woke Racism

How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America