400 - TBR, okay reads & the dogs

Hello all. Some of us thought it would be a good idea to list our TBR books for 400's as well as the dogs and books we thought were okay but not great.

So like in the other 400 thread let me know what's on your TBR list, what was just okay and what awful books you wouldn't recommend to your worst enemy. It'd be super sweet if you included it's dewey number.

400 - TBR
I'm not going to list TBR books that have already been listed in the recommendation thread (the one I organize), but feel free to add your recommendation or condemnation once you have read a previously listed book. I'll delete books from this list as they are read and added to other lists.

400 Language The New York Times Book of Language and Linguistics - Zoe
410 Linguistics In Search of the Indo-Europeans - Zoe
411 Writing systems Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts - Zoe
413 Dictionaries Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Make​rs and the Dictionaries They Made - fundevogel
438 Standard German usage 1001 Pitfalls in German - Zoe
439 Other Germanic languages Yiddish with Dick and Jane - fundevogel
440 Romance languages; French The Story of French - Zoe
448 Standard French usage Tune Up Your French - Zoe
459 Romanian & Rhaeto-Romanic Fantastic Tales - fundevogel
471 Classical Latin writing & phonology ABC Et Cetera - Zoe
475 Classical Latin grammar A New Latin Syntax - Zoe
481 Classical Greek writing & phonology Alpha to Omega - Zoe
493 Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic languages How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs - fundevogel
493 Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic languages Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
497 North American native languages Breaking the Maya Code - fundevogel

400 - Just Okay
(you need to have read the book before you submit to this list)

427 English language variations Poplollies and Bellibones - fundevogel
428 Standard English usage English As She is Spoke - fundevogel
491 East Indo-European & Celtic languages Tri Porosenka - fundevogel (children's read-along in Russian, you need to know the Cyrillic alphabet. My reading comprehension here was terrible :P)

400- the dogs
(you need to have read the book before you submit to this list)

420 English & Old English The Adventure of English - bfertig (too many lists and annoying use of anthropomorphism)
423 English dictionaries The Meaning of Everything - fundevogel (incredibly dry)

Ah, this is what I'm good at! I have plenty of books that I selected because they look promising but haven't actually read yet. I haven't paid attention to whether these have already been listed; I'm sure many of them have:

400 Language: The New York Times Book of Language and Linguistics
409 Geographical & persons treatment: Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

410 Linguistics: In Search of the Indo-Europeans
411 Writing systems: Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
417 Dialectology & historical linguistics: Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

438 Standard German usage: 1001 Pitfalls in German (I've read part of this, and it's quite readable, though knowledge of German would really help)

440 Romance languages; French: The Story of French
448 Standard French usage: Tune Up Your French

471 Classical Latin writing & phonology: ABC Et Cetera
475 Classical Latin grammar: A New Latin Syntax (well, I plan to read it....)

481 Classical Greek writing & phonology: Alpha to Omega

493 Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic languages: Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment

Fantastic! Thanks so much for setting this thread up!!

I'd rank The adventure of English (420) as one of the dogs. I just couldn't get through all the lists of words and for some reason I had issues with his anthropomorphism of the language. At some point I gave up on this one, which is rare for me.

You're welcome, but it's totally selfish on my part. This is making one of my weakest classes more doable.