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.

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The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
  • Simon Winchester
3.85124 reads
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
  • Simon Winchester
3.5524 reads
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
  • Simon Winchester
3.7916 reads
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
  • Simon Winchester
3.9216 reads
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
  • Simon Winchester
3.56 reads
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
  • Simon Winchester
3.756 reads
A Crack in the Edge of the World
A Crack in the Edge of the World
  • Simon Winchester
3.313 reads
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
  • Simon Winchester
3.513 reads
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
  • Simon Winchester
49 reads
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
  • Simon Winchester
310 reads
Exactly
Exactly
  • Simon Winchester
4.298 reads
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
  • Simon Winchester
3.86 reads
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness & the Love of Words
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness & the Love of Words
  • Simon Winchester
47 reads
Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham & the Great Secrets of China
Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham & the Great Secrets of China
  • Simon Winchester
4.254 reads
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
  • Simon Winchester
3.52 reads
The River At The Centre Of The World
The River At The Centre Of The World
  • Simon Winchester
3.53 reads
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
  • Simon Winchester
33 reads
Stones of empire: The buildings of the Raj
Stones of empire: The buildings of the Raj
  • Jan Morris
00 reads
Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic
Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic
    51 read
    Skulls
    Skulls
      00 reads
      Simon Winchester's Calcutta
      Simon Winchester's Calcutta
      • Simon Winchester
      00 reads
      Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
      Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
      • Simon Winchester
      00 reads
      Cascadia's Fault
      Cascadia's Fault
      • Jerry Thompson
      00 reads
      The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
      The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
      • Simon Winchester
      01 read
      A Moveable Feast
      A Moveable Feast
      • Andrew Zimmern
      • Mark Kurlansky
      • Anthony Bourdain
      • Lonely Planet Food
      • Pico Iyer
      • David Lebovitz
      • Andrew McCarthy
      • Jan Morris
      • Simon Winchester
      21 read
      Original Letters from India
      Original Letters from India
      • Eliza Fay
      00 reads
      When the Sky Breaks
      When the Sky Breaks
      • Simon Winchester
      51 read
      The Alice behind wonderland
      The Alice behind wonderland
      • Simon Winchester
      00 reads
      Cover 1

      The Man with the Electrified Brain

      The Man with the Electrified Brain
      • Simon Winchester
      00 reads
      Cover 1

      In Other Words

      In Other Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World
      • C.J. Moore
      • Simon Winchester
      31 read
      The End of the River
      The End of the River
      • Simon Winchester
      41 read
      Oceano
      Oceano
      • Eskil Engdal
      • Kerstin Forsberg
      • Rose George
      • Richard Hamblyn
      • Philip Hoare
      • Tabitha Lasley
      • Valentina Pigmei
      • Antonello Provenzale
      • Kjetil Sæter
      • Giovanni Soldini
      • Simon Winchester
      00 reads
      The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
      The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
      • Simon Winchester
      00 reads
      The Cold War
      The Cold War
      • Stephen E. Ambrose
      • Caleb Carr
      • Thomas Fleming
      • Victor Davis Hanson
      • David McCullough
      • Simon Winchester
      00 reads
      Der Mann, der die Wörter liebte
      Der Mann, der die Wörter liebte
      • Simon Winchester
      00 reads
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      A Crack At the Edge of the World

      A Crack At the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
      • Simon Winchester
      00 reads