Bill Buford

66 books

nonfiction sports challenging medium-paced

320 pages | first published 1990

nonfiction essays short stories travel adventurous funny reflective medium-paced

352 pages | first published 2010

The Best American Travel Writing 2021

Best American Travel Writing #21

Padma Lakshmi with Leslie Jamison (Contributor), Bill Buford (Contributor), Jon Lee Anderson (Contributor), Ligaya Mishan (Contributor), Meghan Daum (Contributor), Paul Theroux (Contributor), Doug Bock Clark (Contributor), Meg Bernhard (Contributor), Bathsheba Demuth (Contributor), Noah Galuten (Contributor), Kiese Laymon (Contributor), Glynnis MacNicol (Contributor), Sarah Moss (Contributor), Intan Paramaditha (Contributor)

nonfiction essays travel informative medium-paced

256 pages | first published 2021

nonfiction essays short stories informative lighthearted slow-paced

240 pages | first published 2012

nonfiction memoir lighthearted medium-paced

640 pages | first published 2020

Granta 10: Travel Writing

Bill Buford with Redmond O'Hanlon (Contributor), Richard Holmes (Contributor), Todd McEwen (Contributor), Martha Gellhorn (Contributor), Jonathan Raban (Contributor), Paul Theroux (Contributor), Norman Lewis (Contributor), Hugh Brody (Contributor), Bruce Chatwin (Contributor), Patrick Marnham (Contributor), William Weaver (Contributor), Gabriel García Márquez (Contributor), James Fenton (Contributor), Saul Bellow (Contributor), Jan Morris (Contributor), Colin Thubron (Contributor), Russell Hoban (Contributor)

nonfiction essays literary travel adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

256 pages | first published 1983

Granta 11: Greetings from Prague

Bill Buford with Redmond O'Hanlon (Contributor), Ariel Dorfman (Contributor), Salman Rushdie (Contributor), Don DeLillo (Contributor), Jay McInerney (Contributor), Leonard Michaels (Contributor), Milan Kundera (Contributor), Sławomir Mrożek (Contributor), Ian McEwan (Contributor), Mario Vargas Llosa (Contributor), Martha Gellhorn (Contributor), Raymond Tallis (Contributor), Gabriel García Márquez (Contributor)

essays literary short stories emotional reflective medium-paced

252 pages | first published 1984

Granta 12: The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones

Bill Buford with Peter Davis (Contributor), James Walcott, Stanley Booth (Contributor), Günter Grass (Contributor), Richard Ford (Contributor), Jayne Anne Phillips (Contributor), Gabriel García Márquez (Contributor), Carolyn Osborn (Contributor), Raymond Carver (Contributor), Breyten Breytenbach (Contributor), David Caute (Contributor), James Wolcott (Contributor)

essays literary short stories informative reflective medium-paced

256 pages | first published 1984

Granta 14: Autobiography

Bill Buford with Adam Mars-Jones (Contributor), Breyten Bretenbach (Contributor), Doris Lessing (Contributor), Vladimir Rybakov (Contributor), Michael Ignatieff (Contributor), Josef Škvorecký (Contributor), Eddie Limonov (Contributor), William Boyd (Contributor), Bernard Crick (Contributor), Todd McEwen (Contributor), Beryl Bainbridge (Contributor), Raymond Carver (Contributor), Reinaldo Arenas (Contributor), Norman Lewis (Contributor), Don McCullin (Contributor), Christian McEwen (Contributor), Jaroslav Seifert (Contributor)

art essays literary short stories emotional funny reflective medium-paced

256 pages | first published 1984

Granta 16: Science

Bill Buford with Oliver Sacks (Contributor), Dorothea Lynch (Contributor), Eugene Richards (Contributor), Thomas McMahon (Contributor), Italo Calvino (Contributor), Lewis Thomas (Contributor), William Broad (Contributor), Primo Levi (Contributor), Stephen Jay Gould (Contributor), Tim O'Brien (Contributor), Mary Gordon (Contributor), David Mamet (Contributor), Darryl Pinckney (Contributor), Ryszard Kapuściński (Contributor), Germaine Greer (Contributor), David Hare (Contributor), Christopher Hitchens (Contributor)

nonfiction essays literary science short stories informative medium-paced

256 pages | first published 1985