Research Guides: Language & Language Learning: Recommended Books by Subject

Enjoy this curated list of books related to Language & Language Learning!

Students in class during the Yucatan Program.

COA's French Program

Books in Spanish

2666 / Roberto Bolaño - SPANISH PQ 8098.12.O38A122 2009
El aleph / Jorge Luis Borges - SPANISH PQ 7797.B635A7 2012
El monstruo de la Calle de Colores / Mario Payeras ; ilustraciones, Roberto González Goyri - SPANISH IR JUV PZ 73 .P39 Mon 2002
El ruido de las cosas al caer / Juan Gabriel Vásquez - SPANISH PQ 8180.32.A797R85 2012
El señor presidente / Miguel Ángel Asturias - SPANISH PQ 7499.A75S4 2011
Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal / J.K. Rowling ; [traducción de Alicia Dellepiane]. - SPANISH IR JUV PZ 7 .R79835 H377818 1999
La ciudad y los perros / Mario Vargas Llosa - SPANISH PQ 8498.32.A65C58 2006
La vorágine / José Eustasio Rivera - SPANISH PQ 8179.R54V7 2012
Libertad bajo palabra : obra poética (1935-1957) / Octavio Paz - SPANISH PQ 7297.P285L52 2003
Los pasos perdidos / Alejo Carpentier - SPANISH PQ 7389.C26P3 2002
Pedro Páramo / Juan Rulfo ; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ; with a foreword by Susan Sontag - SPANISH PQ 7297 .R89 P413 1994
Poesía completa / Jorge Luis Borges - SPANISH PQ 7797.B635A6 2012

Anthologie de la littérature française XIe-XVIe siècles / textes choisis et présentés par Catherine Busch - FRENCH PQ 241 .H67 1994
Best short stories = Les meilleurs contes / Guy de Maupassant ; translated and edited by Steven Jupiter - FRENCH PQ 2349 .A4 E5 1996
Contes du jour et de la nuit / Guy de Maupassant ; préface de Michel Parfenov - FRENCH PQ 2349 .C7 2000
Introduction to French poetry: a dual-language book / edited by Stanley Appelbaum - FRENCH PQ 1170 .E6 I58 1991
L'arbre généreux / Shel Silverstein ; [traduit de l'americain par Michèle Poslaniec] - FRENCH ER JUV PZ 7 .S588 ARB 2007
Le chat chapeauté = the cat in the hat / Dr. Seuss ; traduit de l'américain par Anne-Laure Fournier le Ray - FRENCH ER JUV PZ 2.3 .S48 C3614
Le petit prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - FRENCH IR JUV PZ 24 .S25 2001
L'étranger / Albert Camus - FRENCH PQ 2605 .A3734 E8 1942
Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre A season in hell & The drunken boat English /translations by Louise Varèse - FRENCH PQ 2387 .R5S3 1961

Alif baa with DVDs : introduction to Arabic letters and sounds / Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, Abbas Al-Tonsi - ARABIC PJ 6123 .B78 2004
An Introduction to modern Japanese. Book 1, Grammar lessons / Richard Bowring and Haruko Uryū Laurie - JAPANESE PL 539.5 .I58 1992
Beginning Brazilian Portuguese [CD] / Rosângela Silva - LANGUAGE - BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
Beginning Chinese [CD] / Dana Scott Bourgerie with Ronald R. Robel - LANGUAGE – CHINESE
Complete French grammar / Annie Heminway - FRENCH PC 2112 .H46 2008
Complete German : the basics, revised & updated / revised by Walter Kleinmann ; based on the original by Genvieve A. Martin and Theodor Bertram. - GERMAN PF 3112.7 .G4656 2005
Easy French reader : a three-part text for beginning students / R. de Roussy de Sales - FRENCH PC 2117 .D4392 2004
German : beyond the basics / written by Peter Kellersmann ; edited by Christopher A. Warnasch - GERMAN PF 3112 .B49 2005
Japanese for busy people 1. Workbook / Association for Japanese Language Teaching - JAPANESE PQ 7297 .R89 P413 1994
Learning Chinese characters : a revolutionary new way to learn and remember the 800 most basic chinese characters / Alison Matthews, Laurence Matthews - CHINESE PL1171.M28 2007
Spanish / Juan Kattán-Ibarra ; advisory editor, Paul Coggle. - SPANISH PC 4129 .E5 K38 2007
The Arabic alphabet : how to read and write it / Nicholas Awde and Putros Samano - ARABIC PJ 6321 .A93 2006