Authors Who Should Write More
Discover celebrated authors who should write more, featuring standout works like Michael Crichton's Timeline, Bill Bryson's I'm a Stranger Here Myself, and Christopher Buckley's Thank You for Smoking. Explore this curated book list of fiction, biography, and sharp wit from writers whose voices deserve more pages.
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Thank You for Smoking
by Christopher Buckley
Nick Taylor, chief spokesman for The Academy of Tobacco studies, pitted against an increasingly self-righteous anti-smoking society--and against someone who wants him stubbed out for good.
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself
by Bill Bryson
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.
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Timeline
by Michael Crichton
When a group of scientists learns how to travel through time, they enter life in fourteenth-century feudal France and threaten the history of the world.
