kenhthoisu
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I can think of a few authors who don't stick to one particular subject, and I think this makes them really interesting and worth following. I guess I admire them because their interests are so wide-ranging and they seem to be able to make any topic interesting.
Bill Bryson has done a lot of writing about travel, of course, but he's also delved into language (Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words, Mother Tongue and Made in America), history (At Home, One Summer), science (A Short History of Nearly Everything) and biography (Shakespeare).
Erik Larson has written about the Chicago World's Fair and a serial killer (The Devil in the White City), the first American ambassador to Nazi Germany (In the Garden of Beasts), deadly hurricanes (Isaac's Storm) and the sinking of the Lusitania (Dead Wake), among others.
Simon Winchester has long interested me too. I haven't read any of his books yet, but I have many of them on my TBR pile, including Atlantic, Krakatoa, The Map That Changed the World, The Men Who United the States and The Surgeon of Crowthorne (about madness and the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary).
Lastly, Australia's Peter FitzSimons writes about a wide range of subjects relating to Australia, including history (Batavia, Eureka), war (Kokoda, Tobruk, Gallipoli) and biography (Ned Kelly, Mawson, Charles Kingsford Smith).
What other authors can you recommend who write about a broad and interesting range of topics?
Bill Bryson has done a lot of writing about travel, of course, but he's also delved into language (Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words, Mother Tongue and Made in America), history (At Home, One Summer), science (A Short History of Nearly Everything) and biography (Shakespeare).
Erik Larson has written about the Chicago World's Fair and a serial killer (The Devil in the White City), the first American ambassador to Nazi Germany (In the Garden of Beasts), deadly hurricanes (Isaac's Storm) and the sinking of the Lusitania (Dead Wake), among others.
Simon Winchester has long interested me too. I haven't read any of his books yet, but I have many of them on my TBR pile, including Atlantic, Krakatoa, The Map That Changed the World, The Men Who United the States and The Surgeon of Crowthorne (about madness and the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary).
Lastly, Australia's Peter FitzSimons writes about a wide range of subjects relating to Australia, including history (Batavia, Eureka), war (Kokoda, Tobruk, Gallipoli) and biography (Ned Kelly, Mawson, Charles Kingsford Smith).
What other authors can you recommend who write about a broad and interesting range of topics?
I read everything Bill Bryson, Erik Larson and Simon Winchester write and there's 3 other authors I really like for these kind of books -