As a teacher of English, it’s natural that I want my students to have both a good understanding of language and also a strong ability to produce language.

Luckily for all of you, I have a (no-brainer?) recommendation for all of you – both of these are improved by reading because of how it exposes students to the English language, and that is what I thoroughly and wholeheartedly recommend to you today:

Please read!

Before you start reading TikTok captions and Instagram posts as a reaction of annoyance though, please note that I don’t think that’s going to get you very high-quality information. Articles? Sure, they can be good and valuable for niche information and you can definitely learn a lot if you have high-quality information sources, but if you want to get advanced knowledge in something, take in really good quality ability to write and read… You will have to break the curse of your generation, reclaim your attention span, and pick up a good book!

As you know from perhaps reading my previous posts or the simple fact that I teach English and am catering to all of you here who are interested in the English language, you may well realize that there is a sort of special joy for me when I think about the books of my early days: 

It is that interest that has powered me in many ways towards a steady interest in English as a language and the world that it’s opened up and the ideas that it made possible:

I believe that they are one of the reasons why I ended up developing the English language mastery that I developed. 

That said, I realise that not everyone is aware of what books are the very best, so I thought I’d give it a shot to tell you about what to read. I’ll probably be coming up with a couple of these lists here and there over the course of the next week, covering a range of different topics for your reading pleasure. 

In the coming days, I hope to share a couple of different book recommendations that I have had over the course of the days – not just for students but also for those of you who are parents out there and who are thinking about the kinds of things that you should read and think about in the course of your journey.

I hope that it is going to be helpful for you! 

As a disclosure, I will be using affiliate links, and I may earn a small portion of what you choose to purchase. Thank you in advance for supporting my journey!

I’m including my first post on this in the next entry, although I might make this into something a little more extended soon!

P.S. My first entry in this series is up! Happy reading!