Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester has written at least 76 books. Their most popular book is The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary with 305 saves with an average rating of 3.85⭐.

Author Bio

Author and journalist Simon Winchester was born in England but favours the United States.

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

2003 • 72 Readers 3.5

The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology

2001 • 71 Readers • 356 pages 3.8

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

2018 • 51 Readers • 416 pages 3.9

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

2023 • 38 Readers • 432 pages 3.5

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

2021 • 30 Readers • 594 pages 3.8

A Crack in the Edge of the World

2005 • 27 Readers • 514 pages 3.3

Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

2015 • 26 Readers • 492 pages 3.5

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

2003 • 26 Readers • 292 pages 4

Exactly

Exactly
BySimon Winchester

2018 • 18 Readers • 395 pages 4.3

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness & the Love of Words

1998 • 14 Readers • 207 pages 4

The River At The Centre Of The World

1996 • 9 Readers • 518 pages 3.5

Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles

1988 • 9 Readers • 387 pages 3.5

Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham & the Great Secrets of China

2008 • 9 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

1985 • 7 Readers • 469 pages 3

Stones of empire: The buildings of the Raj

1983 • 2 Readers • 234 pages

Skulls

Skulls
ByNick Mann(Photographer),Simon Winchester(Photographs)

2012 • 2 Readers • 256 pages

Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic

2006 • 2 Readers 5

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

2003 • 1 Reader • 448 pages

Original Letters from India

1817 • 1 Reader • 288 pages

The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans

1999 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast
ByAndrew Zimmern,Mark Kurlansky,+7 more

2011 • 1 Reader • 296 pages 2

When the Sky Breaks

When the Sky Breaks
BySimon Winchester

2017 • 1 Reader • 96 pages 5

The Alice behind wonderland

The Alice behind wonderland
BySimon Winchester

2011 • 1 Reader • 110 pages

Simon Winchester's Calcutta

Simon Winchester's Calcutta
BySimon Winchester

2004 • 1 Reader

Oceano

#20 of 11 in The Passenger

Oceano
ByEskil Engdal,Kerstin Forsberg,+9 more

2022 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

Cascadia's Fault

Cascadia's Fault
ByJerry Thompson

2011 • 1 Reader • 359 pages

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1 Reader

The End of the River

The End of the River
BySimon Winchester

1 Reader 4

Der Mann, der die Wörter liebte

1998 • 283 pages

The Cold War

The Cold War
ByStephen E. Ambrose,Caleb Carr,+4 more

2005 • 478 pages