I bought Gift of Wings when it first came out.
I liked it then and still do, but as Bach himself admits in the forward, some of his earlier pieces in it (they are mainly republished magazine columns from Flying and other US GA magazines) are very heavy handed.
Very ernest, but in his early days, he tried a bit too hard.
As far a his works, I appreciate the variety of GoW, but I really like Nothing by Chance, a tale of latter-day barnstorming in the uppermidwest in the mid 1960s. That may be because I’ve been to that region and know what those towns were like at that time.
For GA-centric writing about the joy of flight, I’d also recommend Gordon Baxter who wrote a monthly column for Flying from 1970 to the early 90s.
He matches Bach’s missionary zeal for flying but with a lot more humor. And, being older than Bach he writes great stories about being a child in the prewar”Golden Age” of aviation. During the war, he served in the Merchant Marine and as B-17 gunner, though he doesn’t write of his combat experiences, you can sense his admiration those who served.
His columns have been reprinted as Bax Seat, and More Bax Seat.
If you like Bach, you’ll like Baxter.

As far as outstanding writing goes, I’d have to give my nod to Ernest K. Gann’s Fate is the Hunter, an autobiographical look at his career as an airline pilot from the mid-30s until the mid-50s (when he became a full time author). Pilots and non-flyers alike will appreciate his descriptions of battling thunderstormsd in DC-3s over America and flying C-87s out of India.

Serenade to a Big Bird is outstanding, telling the story of a young American college student (something very rare back them) who finds himself flying and fighting for his life over Europe.
I’m sure there are many similar accounts by airmen on both sides, but Stiles accounts of living in a foreign land and flying are not to be missed. You see him grow weary of war and the deaths of friends, yet he volunteered to switch to P-51s after completing his bomber tour.
For the rest of his story, I can recommend, a 1993 biography Serenade to the Blue Lady, The Story of Bert Stiles, by Robert F. Cooper.
Along with his private life as a college student and budding author, amplifies details of American aircrew life in the UK.