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Summer Reading Lists

The members of the Linguistics Institute have put together a list of interesting books, movies, YouTube channels, and other resources for adding some (leisure) linguistics to your summer break! 
The list is intended for any linguistics enthusiast, and no prior knowledge of any branch of linguistics is required. 

Thanks to the University and State Library (ULB), many of the titles are already available at the library and the links are included in the list.

2025

  1. The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo
     
  2. Signs of Civilisation: How punctuation changed history by  Bård Borch Michalsen
     
  3. Atlas der vom Aussterben bedrohten Sprachen, von Arnfrid Schenk, Stefan Schnell
     
  4. The AI Con, by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna
     
  5. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchan Magan
     
  6. Babel by R. F. Kuang. A fantasy novel about the magic of translation, dark academia, and imperialism
     
  7. Exercises in Style (Stilübungen) by Raymond Queneau – Something fun, a tale is retold in various setting like Passive, Gastronomical, Mathematical, Awkward or Haiku
     
  8. The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
     
  9. Research Mates in African Linguistics edited by Ngessimo M. Mutaka and Sammy B. Chumbow
  1. Heinrich Heine in your mother tongue
  2. Levy, Kim, and Fox. 2025. The Science of Language in the Era of Generative AI
  3. The love of books (How a complete library was saved during the war in Sarajevo)

2024

  • Arrival (movie)
  • Still Alice (movie)
  • Hot Skull (Sicak kafa)
  • My Fair Lady (movie)
  • languagejones
  • NativLang
  • etymology_nerd 

For computational linguists:

  • AI Coffee Break with Letitia
  • Yannic Kilcher
  • Serrano Academy