Order of Bill Bryson Books
Bill Bryson is an American author of travel, science and language books with a humourous spin. Bryson has been moving back and forth between the United States and England since 1973 and been writing all about both countries, as well as other countries and continents such as Austalia, Europe and Africa.
Bill Bryson made his debut as a published author in 1985 with The Palace under the Alps and Over 200 Other Unusual, Unspoiled and Infrequently Visited Spots in 16 European Countries. Below is a list of Bill Bryson’s books in order of when they were originally released:
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Publication Order of History Books
| Icons of England | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| At Home: A Short History of Private Life | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| One Summer: America, 1927 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Language Books
| Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mother Tongue | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Made in America | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Best American Travel Writing 2000 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shakespeare | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Secret History of Christmas | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Science Books
| A Short History of Nearly Everything | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Really Short History of Nearly Everything | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Seeing Further | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Body | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Travel Books
(with Marina Warner, Christopher Lloyd, Jennifer Jenkins, David Bellamy, Robin Hanbury-Tenbison, Anna Parord)
| The Palace Under the Alps | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lost Continent | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Neither Here nor There | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Notes from a Small Island | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Walk in the Woods | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| I'm a Stranger Here Myself / Notes from a Big Country | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The English Landscape: Its Character and Diversity | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In a Sunburned Country / Down Under | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bill Bryson's African Diary | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Road to Little Dribbling | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Bill Bryson BBC Radio Collection | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Eminent Lives Books
| Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| George Balanchine | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Beethoven | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Thomas Jefferson | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Caravaggio | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Alexander the Great | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Freud | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Francis Crick | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Alexis de Tocqueville | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shakespeare | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Machiavelli | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| George Washington | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Marina Warner Travel Books
| The English Landscape: Its Character and Diversity | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Myth and Landscape | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of The Best American: Travel Writing Books
| The Best American Travel Writing 2000 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best American Travel Writing 2011 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best American Travel Writing 2012 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best American Travel Writing 2013 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best American Travel Writing 2014 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best American Travel Writing 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best American Travel Writing 2016 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best American Travel Writing 2017 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best American Travel Writing 2018 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best American Travel Writing 2019 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best American Travel Writing 2020 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best American Travel Writing 2021 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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Notes: I’m a Stranger Here Myself was published as Notes from a Big Country in the United Kingdom. In a Sunburned Country was published as Down Under in the UK.
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Notes from a big country ??????
Listed as I’m a Stranger Here Myself.