In 2003, in conjunction with World Book Day, voters in England chose Bryson's book Notes From a Small Island as the book that best sums up England's identity and the state of the nation.

Bryson has written two works on the history of the English language, Mother Tongue and Made In America. However, these books have been criticized for their abundance of factual errors, urban myths, and folk etymologies. While Bryson is passionate about languages, he holds no degree in linguistics.

Table of contents

1 List of works 1.1 Books on travel 1.2 Books on language 1.3 Books on science 2 External links

List of works

Books on travel

• The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
• Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe (1993)
• Notes from a Small Island (1995) (travels in the United Kingdom, adapted for television by Carlton Television in 1998)
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1997)
• I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away (US Edition) / Notes From a Big Country (UK Edition) (1998, columns about moving back to the USA)
• In a Sunburned Country (US edition) / Down Under (UK edition) (2000, travels in Australia)
• Bizarre World

• Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way (1989)
• Made in America: an Informal History of the English Language in the United States (1994)
• Troublesome Words (English language usage guide for writers)

• A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003)