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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Bestseller chart data from BestsellerStats.net — explore Bill Bryson’s complete chart history, week by week.

Reading Order

10 series · 56 books

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

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

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	The Best American Travel Writing 2000	2000	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
2	The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir	2006	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
3	Shakespeare	2007	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
4	The Secret History of Christmas	2022	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on 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 on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
2	A Really Short History of Nearly Everything	2004		Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
3	Seeing Further	2010		Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
4	The Body	2019	Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020Full award history →	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Awards	Buy
1	The Palace Under the Alps	1985		Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
2	The Lost Continent	1989		Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
3	Neither Here nor There	1992		Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
4	Notes from a Small Island	1995		Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
5	A Walk in the Woods	1997	🎬 Adapted for film/TV →	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
6	I'm a Stranger Here Myself / Notes from a Big Country	1998		Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on 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 on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
8	In a Sunburned Country / Down Under	2000		Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
9	Bill Bryson's African Diary	2002		Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
10	The Road to Little Dribbling	2015		Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia

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

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time by Karen Armstrong	1991	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
2	Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero by Michael Korda	2004	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
3	George Balanchine by Robert Gottlieb	2004	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
4	Beethoven by Edmund Morris	2005	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
5	Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens	2005	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
6	Caravaggio by Francine Prose	2005	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
7	Alexander the Great by Norman F. Cantor	2005	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
8	Freud by Peter D. Kramer	2006	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
9	Francis Crick by Matt Ridley	2006	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
10	Alexis de Tocqueville by Joseph Epstein	2006	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
11	Shakespeare	2007	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
12	Machiavelli by Ross King	2007	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
13	George Washington by Paul Johnson	2009	Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on 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 on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
	2	Myth and Landscape (Short Story) by Marina Warner, Ibrahim al-Koni, David Parker	2015		Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia

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

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

Bill Bryson Short Story Collections

Eminent Lives Series

Marina Warner Travel Books

The Best American: Travel Writing

Bill Bryson Anthologies