- Palimpsest, a history of the written word, Matthew Battles
- The greatest invention, a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts, Silvia Ferrara ; translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz
- The missing ink, the lost art of handwriting, Philip Hensher
- Masters of the word, how media shaped history, from the alphabet to the Internet, William J. Bernstein
- Manuscripts, inscriptions and muniments, oriental, classical, medieval and modern, described, classified and arranged, comprehending the history of the art of writing, by Henry Smith Williams, M.D. With more than two hundred facsimile reproductions in tone and color from the important languages of every age ..
- Lost languages, the enigma of the world's great undeciphered scripts, Andrew Robinson
- Shady characters, the secret life of punctuation, symbols & other typographical marks, Keith Houston
- A to Z, the first alphabet ; A to Z : how writing changed the world, produced by Hugh Sington ; written and directed by David Sington
- The history and uncertain future of handwriting, Anne Trubek
- The history of the written word, Kevin Cunningham
- The student's guide to Western calligraphy, an illustrated survey, by Joyce Irene Whalley
- De prima scribendi origine et universa rei literariae antiquitate, cui notas, opusculum de scribis, apologiam pro Waechtlero ; praefationem et indices adjecit C.H. Trotz, jctus
- Die Schrift in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, von Hans Jensen
- Selected essays on the history of letter-forms in manuscript and print, Stanley Morison ; edited by David McKitterick
- The writing revolution, cuneiform to the Internet, Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
- The writing systems of the world, Florian Coulmas
- The story of writing, Andrew Robinson