Bestsellers of 2018

At Panini Press, we continue to be Committed to the life and career of the Working Linguist—but All Work and No Play makes Jack a Dull Vowel. For your Amusement and Edification, we collect here the Bestselling Fiction and Non-Fiction Books of 2018, from Panini Press. All are now available at Fine Book Retailers world-wide.❦पा

Literature and Fiction

• The Alphabetist (25th Anniversary Edition), by Paulo Coelocutio

• Mesolect and Holonymy, by Rupi Kauser

• Where the Cardinal Vowels Sing, by Deliberativa Owens

• Nine Perfective Strong Verbs, by Liane Mirativity

• A Curve in the Tongue, by Julianne MacLexicon

• Graze-the-Ridge Alveolars: A Novel, by Kevin Quantity

• Beneath a “Scare Quote” Sky: A Novel, by Case-Marker Sullivan

• Before We_INCL Were Yours_EXCL: A Novel, by Lisa Wingate

• The Great A♯ Tone: A Novel, by Kartvelian Hannah

• True Places of Articulation: A Novel, by Sonorantja Yoerg

• Every Aspirated Consonant: A Novel, by Nick & Les Speaks

• One Day in Decipherment: A Novel, by Josie Silence

• Just After Mid Vowel: A Novel, by Catherine Ryan Hypodiastole

• Claiming Your Pretentious Faux Literary Genre Identity: “A Novel” (2018 Expanded Edition), by The Moderately Irked Editors of Panini Press

Mystery and Suspense

• Pluperfect Subjunctive: A French Teacher Novel, by -ly Child

• The Rising Tone, by Clive Cusser and Graham Down-Inflection

• The Retconning: A Novel, by Join Greatdata

• The Theory that Wouldn’t Die, by Morphemie Riches

• The Present Is Missing: A Novel, by James Patoison & Bill Clickton

Young Adult

• Fantastic Linguists and Where to Find Them, by J. K. Poyjnhr

• A Thousand Onsets and Codas, edited by Ellen /Oʊ/ and Elsie Chapacuranman

• The Phoneme /x/, by Elizabeth Accusativo

• Darius the Great Vowel Shift Is Not Okay, by Adlib Khorram

Children’s

• Gerunds Can’t Dance, by Giles Andative

• First 100 Words, by Register “Swadesh” Priddy

• P Is for Pig, Not Pterodactyl: The Alphabet Book for Kids Too Stupid to Handle Words With Interesting Etymologies, by Raj Holophrasis

Humor

• Who’s Boat is “Whose Boat”: Comments That Help in the Aftermath of a Bad English Grade, by Stephen Drumpf

• ...And Then You Die of Dysentery: Lessons in Biblical Translation, by Desiderius Erasmus

Politics and History

• Proof of Collocation: How Statistically Improbable Phrases Betray You—Bigly, by Sð Abramson

• A Higher Tonality: Transcription, Linguistics, and Low Pitch, by James Compensatory­lengthening

• The Fifth Formant, by Macaronic Lewis

• Form and Fortition: Inside the Mumpsimus Whitespace, by Michael Well-Fformedness

• Loudership: In Turbulent Airstreams, by Doris Learns Moodwin

• Grants, by Loan T’You-Now

• Killing the ʃʃ: The Hunt for the Worst Word War II Criminals in History, by Bill O’Readability

Memoirs

• Be/Coming: My Life with English Copulative Verbs, by Michelle Obelism

• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Velarized Alveolar Lateral, by Mich-ł McNamara

Science, Math, and Linguistics

• Linguistics: It Doesn’t Matter After All (My Bad!), by J. K. Pushem

• Benefactfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About Grammar—and Why Languages Are Better Than You Think, by Hesternals Rosling