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Bill Bryson

American-British author (born 1951) · 1951

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37 books · 1982-2021

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William McGuire Bryson is an American journalist and author who was naturalized as a British citizen in 2014. Bryson has written nonfiction books on topics including travel, the English language, and science. Bryson moved to Britain in his twenties and remained in the country for most of his adult life. However, he periodically returned to live in the U.S. such as between 1995 and 2003. He was the chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011.

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Standalone books

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# Title Published
1 The Blook of Bunders 1982 Amazon
2
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words 1984 Amazon
3 The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words 1984 Amazon
4 The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America 1989 Amazon
5 Travel 1989 Amazon
6 The General 1990 Amazon
7 The Mother Tongue 1990 Amazon
8 Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors 1991 Amazon
9 Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe 1992 Amazon
10 Made in America 1994 Amazon
11 Notes from a Small Island 1995 Amazon
12 A Walk in the Woods 1997 Amazon
13 Notes from a Big Country 1998 Amazon
14 I'm a Stranger Here Myself 1999 Amazon
15 Wild 1999 Amazon
16 Down Under (In a Sunburned Country) 2000 Amazon
17
In a Sunburned Country 2000 Amazon
18 The Best American Travel Writing 2000 2000 Amazon
19 The English Landscape 2000 Amazon
20 Bill Bryson African Diary 2002 Amazon
21
Bill Bryson's African Diary 2002 Amazon
22 Walk About 2002 Amazon
23 A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003 Amazon
24
In Search of Shrodinger's Cat 2003 Amazon
25 Bill Bryson Collector's Edition 2006 Amazon
26 The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid 2006 Amazon
27 Shakespeare: The World as Stage 2007 Amazon
28 A Really Short History of Nearly Everything 2008 Amazon
29 At Home: A Short History of Private Life 2010 Amazon
30 Icons of England 2010 Amazon
31 Prentice Hall Literature -- The American Experience 2010 Amazon
32 Seeing Further 2010 Amazon
33 Śniadanie Z Kangurami. Australijskie Przygody 2011 Amazon
34 One Summer: America 1927 2013 Amazon
35 The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island 2015 Amazon
36 The Body: A Guide for Occupants 2019 Amazon
37 Una Muy Breve Historia De Casi Todo 2021 Amazon

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