| Losing the race: Self-sabotage in Black America JH McWhorter Simon and Schuster, 2000 | 950 | 2000 |
| The worlds simplest grammars are creole grammars JH McWhorter Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 5 (2-3), 125-166, 2001 | 811 | 2001 |
| Identifying the creole prototype: Vindicating a typological class JH McWhorter Language, 788-818, 1998 | 550 | 1998 |
| Defining creole JH McWhorter Oxford University Press, 2005 | 405 | 2005 |
| Language interrupted: Signs of non-native acquisition in standard language grammars J McWhorter Oxford University Press, 2007 | 359 | 2007 |
| The language hoax: Why the world looks the same in any language JH McWhorter Oxford University Press, 2014 | 303 | 2014 |
| The power of Babel: A natural history of language J McWhorter Random House, 2011 | 291 | 2011 |
| The missing Spanish creoles: Recovering the birth of plantation contact languages J McWhorter Univ of California Press, 2000 | 288 | 2000 |
| Word on the street: Debunking the myth of a pure standard English J McWhorter Basic Books, 2000 | 229* | 2000 |
| Towards a new model of creole genesis JH McWhorter (No Title), 1997 | 216 | 1997 |
| Linguistic simplicity and complexity: Why do languages undress? JH McWhorter Walter de Gruyter, 2011 | 197 | 2011 |
| What happened to English? J McWhorter Diachronica 19 (2), 217-272, 2002 | 153 | 2002 |
| Woke racism: How a new religion has betrayed Black America J McWhorter Penguin, 2021 | 143 | 2021 |
| Winning the race: Beyond the crisis in Black America J McWhorter Penguin, 2006 | 128 | 2006 |
| Our magnificent bastard tongue: The untold history of English JH McWhorter Penguin, 2008 | 119 | 2008 |
| Authentically black: Essays for the black silent majority J McWhorter Penguin, 2004 | 108 | 2004 |
| The power of Babel J McWhorter A natural history of language, 2001 | 102 | 2001 |
| How hip-hop holds blacks back JH McWhorter City Journal 13 (3), 66-75, 2003 | 101 | 2003 |
| Substratal influence in Saramaccan serial verb constructions J McWhorter Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 7 (1), 1-53, 1992 | 97 | 1992 |
| Spreading the word: Language and dialect in America JH McWhorter Heinemann, 2000 | 95 | 2000 |
