One Summer : America, 1927
"A glorious look at one summer in America…Bryson offers delicious detail and breathtaking suspense about events whose outcomes are already known." —Booklist, Starred Review
At Home : a short history of private life
he New York Times – Dominique Browning At Home is baggy, loose-jointed and genial. It moves along at a vigorously restless pace, with the energy of a Labrador retriever off the leash, racing up to each person it encounters, pawing and sniffing and barking at every fragrant thing, plunging into icy waters only to dash […]
I'm a Stranger Here Myself : Notes On Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
A Walk In the Woods : Rediscovering America On the Appalachian Trail
In a Sunburned Country
Made In America : an Informal History of the English Language In the United States
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid : a Memoir
Library Journal Review: I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s, writes Bryson (A Walk in the Woods), and his wryly amusing stories of his childhood in Des Moines almost convince the reader this is true. Bryson recounts the world of his […]