Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson — 9 titles in the rankings, first published between 1989 and 2019. They average 8.0, above the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages.
Editor’s note Funny, curious non-fiction. A Short History of Nearly Everything, which explains how science worked out the age of the Earth, the atom and the origins of life, is his most read and best rated book by a wide margin; start there. His travel books are lighter: Notes from a Small Island on Britain, A Walk in the Woods on the Appalachian Trail. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid recalls his 1950s Iowa childhood.
- Ranked titles
- 9 books
- Average score
- 8.0
- Total ratings
- 2.4K
- First published
- 1989–2019
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Books by Bill Bryson
- A Short History of Nearly Everything1.1K ratings
8.58.5 / 10 - The Body: A Guide for Occupants346 ratings
8.48.4 / 10 - One Summer116 ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid139 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Made in America53 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - A Walk in the Woods68 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - The Mother Tongue160 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Notes from a Small Island225 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - The Lost Continent149 ratings
7.67.6 / 10
Other books by Bill Bryson
Titles we know of but do not rank — they have not gathered enough reader ratings, or our sources do not agree on where they belong.
- 1984Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
- 1989The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
- 1992Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
- 1998Notes from a Big Country
- 2000Down Under (In a Sunburned Country)
- 2000In a Sunburned Country
- 2002Bill Bryson's African Diary
- 2007Shakespeare: The World as Stage
- 2010At Home: A Short History of Private Life
- 2013One Summer: America 1927
- 2015The road to Little Dribbling
- 2015The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island
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