Name: The English Landscape: Its Character and Diversity ( With: Marina Warner, Christopher Lloyd, Jennifer Jenkins, David Bellamy, Robin Hanbury-Tenbison, Anna Parord)
Author: Bill Bryson
ISBN: 1861971133

Bill Bryson has written 56 books since 1984. The work is organised into 10 series; the longest is Eminent Lives at 13 books. The Bill Bryson BBC Radio Collection (2023) is the most recent addition we've catalogued.

New York Times Bestsellers

10 books

Bill Bryson has placed 10 books on the New York Times bestseller lists, spending a combined 174 weeks on the charts. One title reached #1.

A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson Travel Books with Marina Warner, Christopher Lloyd, Jennifer Jenkins, David Bellamy, Robin Hanbury-Tenbison, Anna Parord

35 weeks on the Times Hardcover Nonfiction list · peaked at #1 · debuted Jun 1998 · 44 weeks across 2 NYT lists

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The Body

Bill Bryson Science Books

19 weeks on the Times Hardcover Nonfiction list · peaked at #5 · debuted Oct 2019 · 36 weeks across 2 NYT lists

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Reading Order

10 series · 56 books

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	Icons of England	2008	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	At Home: A Short History of Private Life	2010	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	One Summer: America, 1927	2013	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words	1984	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	The Mother Tongue	1990	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	Made in America	1994	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4	Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors	2008	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	The Best American Travel Writing 2000	2000	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir	2006	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	Shakespeare	2007	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4	The Secret History of Christmas	2022	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Awards	Buy
1	A Short History of Nearly Everything	2003	Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2004Full award history →	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	A Really Short History of Nearly Everything	2004		Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	Seeing Further	2010		Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4	The Body	2019	Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020Full award history →	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	The Palace Under the Alps	1985	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	The Lost Continent	1989	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	Neither Here nor There	1992	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4	Notes from a Small Island	1995	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5	A Walk in the Woods	1997	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6	I'm a Stranger Here Myself / Notes from a Big Country	1998	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7	The English Landscape: Its Character and Diversity ( With: Marina Warner, Christopher Lloyd, Jennifer Jenkins, David Bellamy, Robin Hanbury-Tenbison, Anna Parord)	2000	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8	In a Sunburned Country / Down Under	2000	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9	Bill Bryson's African Diary	2002	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10	The Road to Little Dribbling	2015	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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	1	The Bill Bryson BBC Radio Collection	2023		Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time ( By: Karen Armstrong)	1991	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero ( By: Michael Korda)	2004	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	George Balanchine ( By: Robert Gottlieb)	2004	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4	Beethoven ( By: Edmund Morris)	2005	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5	Thomas Jefferson ( By: Christopher Hitchens)	2005	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6	Caravaggio ( By: Francine Prose)	2005	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7	Alexander the Great ( By: Norman F. Cantor)	2005	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8	Freud ( By: Peter D. Kramer)	2006	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9	Francis Crick ( By: Matt Ridley)	2006	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10	Alexis de Tocqueville ( By: Joseph Epstein)	2006	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11	Shakespeare	2007	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12	Machiavelli ( By: Ross King)	2007	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13	George Washington ( By: Paul Johnson)	2009	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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	1	The English Landscape: Its Character and Diversity ( With: Marina Warner, Christopher Lloyd, Jennifer Jenkins, David Bellamy, Robin Hanbury-Tenbison, Anna Parord)	2000		Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
	2	Myth and Landscape (Short Story) ( By: Marina Warner, Ibrahim al-Koni, David Parker)	2015		Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	The Best American Travel Writing 2000	2000	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	The Best American Travel Writing 2011 ( By: Sloane Crosley)	2011	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	The Best American Travel Writing 2012 ( By: Jason Wilson)	2012	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4	The Best American Travel Writing 2013 ( By: Jason Wilson)	2013	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5	The Best American Travel Writing 2014 ( By: Jason Wilson)	2014	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6	The Best American Travel Writing 2015 ( By: Jason Wilson)	2015	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7	The Best American Travel Writing 2016	2016	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8	The Best American Travel Writing 2017 ( By: Jason Wilson, Lauren Collins)	2017	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9	The Best American Travel Writing 2018 ( By: Cheryl Strayed)	2018	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10	The Best American Travel Writing 2019 ( By: Jason Wilson)	2019	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11	The Best American Travel Writing 2020 ( By: Jason Wilson)	2020	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12	The Best American Travel Writing 2021 ( By: Padma Lakshmi)	2021	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	Great Baseball Stories	1990	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	The Astronomy Book	2012	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	Dear NHS	2020	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

About the Author

"William McGuire "Bill" Bryson is a best-selling Anglo-American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and science."

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Bill Bryson Books in Order

New York Times Bestsellers

Reading Order

Bill Bryson History Books

Bill Bryson Language Books

Bill Bryson Non-Fiction Books

Bill Bryson Science Books

Bill Bryson Travel Books with Marina Warner, Christopher Lloyd, Jennifer Jenkins, David Bellamy, Robin Hanbury-Tenbison, Anna Parord

Bill Bryson Short Story Collections

Eminent Lives Series

Marina Warner Travel Books

The Best American: Travel Writing

Bill Bryson Anthologies