User:GrahamHardy/Non-fiction

By Author :

1/5 = "Poor", 2/5 = "Fair", 3/5 = "Good", 4/5 = "Very Good", 5/5 = "Excellent"

Ian Allan - British Railway Disasters - 4/5 Marc Almond - Tainted Life - 2/5 Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 3/5 Russell Baker - Growing Up - 3/5 Nigel Barley - The Innocent Antropologist - 3/5 Julian Barnes - Levels of Life - 2/5 Jean-Dominique Bauby - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - 3/5 Simone de Beauvoir - Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - 3/5 Rene Belbenoit - Dry Guillotine - 3/5 John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - 3/5 Peter Biskind - Easy Riders, Raging Bulls - 3/5 James Bowen - A Street Cat Named Bob - 3/5 Richard Branson - Losing my Virginity - 3/5 Dee Brown - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - 3/5 Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent - 5/5 Down Under - 3/5 The Mother Tongue - 4/5 Neither Here Nor There - 4/5 Notes From a Small Island - 4/5 A Walk in the Woods - 4/5 Notes from a Big Country - 3/5 Shakespeare: The World as Stage - 3/5 William S. Burroughs - Junky - 3/5 Warwick Cairns - About the Size of It - 3/5 Truman Capote - In Cold Blood - 3/5 Lorenzo Carcaterra - Sleepers - 3/5 Jung Chang - Wild Swans - 4/5 Henri Charriere - Papillon - 2/5 Emily Colas - Just Checking - 2/5 Judy Corbett - Castles in the Air - 3/5 Ross Coulthart - In Plain Sight - 3/5 Dominika Dery - The Twelve Little Cakes - 3/5 Keith Devlin - Mathematics: The New Golden Age - 3/5 Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics - 3/5 Sebastian Faulks - The Fatal Englishman - 3/5 Niall Ferguson - The Ascent of Money - 3/5 Richard Feynmann - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman - 3/5 Helen Forrester - By the Waters of Liverpool - 2/5 Liverpool Miss - 4/5 Twopence to Cross The Mersey - 3/5 Jonathan Franzen - The Discomfort Zone - 2/5 James Frey - A Million Little Pieces - 4/5 Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot - 3/5 Dave Gorman - Are You Dave Gorman? - 3/5 Googlewhack Adventure - 3/5 Martin Gurdon - Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance - 3/5 Hawking and Mlodinow - A Briefer History of Time - 3/5 Tony Hawks - Round Ireland with a Fridge - 4/5 Playing the Moldovans at Tennis - 5/5 One Hit Wonderland - 3/5 A Piano in the Pyrenees by Tony Hawks - 3/5

Homer Hickam - Rocket Boys 3/5 Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch 3/5 William Horwood - The Boy With No Shoes - 3/5 Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception - 2/5 Simon Inglis - Football Grounds of Britain - 4/5 John Irving - My Movie Business - 2/5 Micio Kaku - Parallel Worlds - 2/5 Peter Kay - The Sound of Laughter - 4/5 Saturday Night Peter - 4/5 Thomas Kenneally - Schindler's Ark - 3/5 Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie - 3/5 Elen Lewis - The eBay Phenomenon - 3/5 Liebes, Sahtouris and Swimme - A Walk Through Time - 3/5 Alexander Masters - Stuart: A Life Backwards - 3/5 Ibuse Masuji - Black Rain - 3/5 V. S. Naipaul - An Area of Darkness - 1/5 Eric Newby - A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - 3/5 Susan Orlean - The Orchid Thief - 2/5 George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London - 4/5 The Road to Wigan Pier (part 1) - 4/5 Dave Pelzer - A Child Called It - 3/5 Patricia Pierce - Old London Bridge - 3/5 Barry Pilton - One Man and His Bog - 4/5 One Man and His Log - 4/5 Edward Platt - Leadville - 3/5 Stuart Prebble - Grumpy Old Men - 3/5 L. T. C. Rolt - Red for Danger - 3/5 Oliver Sacks - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - 3/5 Siegfried Sassoon - Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man - 3/5 W.G. Sebald - The Rings of Saturn - 3/5 Joe Simpson - Touching the Void - 4/5 Simon Singh - Fermat's Last Theorem - 4/5 Nigel Slater - Toast - 3/5 Dava Sobel - Longitude - 4/5 Spencer Johnson - Who Moved My Cheese? - 3/5 Chris Stewart - Driving Over Lemons - 3/5 Randall Stross - Planet Google - 3/5 John Tauranac - The Empire State Building - 4/5 Paul Theroux - The Great Railway Bazaar - 3/5 James Thurber - The Owl in the Attic - 3/5 My Life and Hard Times -4/5 Lynne Truss - Eats, Shoots & Leaves - 4/5 Brian Viner - Cream Teas, Traffic Jams and Sunburn - 3/5 Danny Wallace - Join Me - 3/5 Paul Watkins - Stand Before Your God - 3/5 Nigel Williams - From Wimbledon to Waco - 2/5 Robin Wilson Four Colours Suffice - 3/5 Simon Winchester - The Map that Changed the World - 3/5 William Woodruff The Road to Nab End - 3/5 Beyond Nab End - 4/5

By Rating :

5/5 - Excellent :

• The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
• Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks

4/5 - Very Good :

• Beyond Nab End by William Woodruff
• British Railway Disasters by Ian Allan
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
• The Empire State Building by John Tauranac
• Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
• Football Grounds of Britain by Simon Inglis
• Liverpool Miss by Helen Forrester
• Longitude by Dava Sobel
• The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
• My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
• Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
• Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
• One Man and His Bog by Barry Pilton
• One Man and His Log by Barry Pilton
• Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
• Saturday Night Peter by Peter Kay
• The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay
• Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• Wild Swans by Jung Chang
• The Road to Wigan Pier (part 1) by George Orwell

3/5 Good :

About the Size of It by Warwick Cairns Are You Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson Black Rain by Ibuse Masuji The Boy With No Shoes by William Horwood A Briefer History of Time by Hawking and Mlodinow Castles in the Air by Judy Corbett Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee Cream Teas, Traffic Jams and Sunburn by Brian Viner The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Down Under by Bill Bryson Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart Dry Guillotine by Rene Belbenoit Googlewhack Adventure by Dave Gorman Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind The eBay Phenomenon by Elen Lewis The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby Four Colours Suffice by Robin Wilson Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux Growing Up by Russell Baker Grumpy Old Men by Stuart Prebble Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance by Martin Gurdon I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou In Cold Blood by Truman Capote In Plain Sight by Ross Coulthart The Innocent Antropologist by Nigel Barley Join Me by Danny Wallace Junky by William S. Burroughs Leadville by Edward Platt Losing my Virginity by Richard Branson

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester Mathematics: The New Golden Age by Keith Devlin Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson Old London Bridge by Patricia Pierce One Hit Wonderland by Tony Hawks The Owl in the Attic by James Thurber A Piano in the Pyrenees by Tony Hawks Planet Google by Randall Stross Red for Danger by L. T. C. Rolt The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald The Road to Nab End by William Woodruff Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam Schindeler's Ark by Thomas Kenneally Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra Stand Before Your God by Paul Watkins A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynmann Toast by Nigel Slater The Twelve Little Cakes by Dominika Dery Twopence to Cross The Mersey by Helen Forrester A Walk Through Time by Liebes, Sahtouris and Swimme Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

2/5 Fair :

• By the Waters of Liverpool by Helen Forrester
• The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen
• The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
• From Wimbledon to Waco by Nigel Williams
• Just Checking by Emily Colas
• Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
• My Movie Business by John Irving
• The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
• Papillon by Henri Charriere
• Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku
• Tainted Life by Marc Almond

1/5 Poor :

• An Area of Darkness by V. S. Naipaul

By Year of Publication :

Ratings : 1/5 = "Poor", 2/5 = "Fair", 3/5 = "Good", 4/5 = "Very Good", 5/5 = "Excellent"

1920s

• 1928 - Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon 3/5

1930s

• 1931 - The Owl in the Attic by James Thurber 3/5
• 1933 - My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber 4/5
• 1933 - Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 4/5
• 1937 - The Road to Wigan Pier (part 1) by George Orwell 4/5
• 1938 - Dry Guillotine by Rene Belbenoit 3/5

1950s

• 1953 - Junky by William S. Burroughs 3/5
• 1954 - The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley 2/5
• 1955 - Red for Danger by L. T. C. Rolt 3/5
• 1958 - A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby 3/5
• 1958 - Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 3/5
• 1959 - Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee 3/5

1960s

• 1964 - An Area of Darkness by V. S. Naipaul 1/5
• 1965 - Black Rain by Ibuse Masuji 3/5
• 1966 - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 3/5
• 1969 - Papillon by Henri Charriere 2/5
• 1969 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 3/5

1970s

• 1970 - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown 3/5
• 1974 - Twopence to Cross The Mersey by Helen Forrester 3/5
• 1975 - The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux 3/5
• 1979 - Liverpool Miss by Helen Forrester 4/5

1980s

• 1981 - By the Waters of Liverpool by Helen Forrester 2/5
• 1982 - Schindler's Ark by Thomas Kenneally 3/5
• 1982 - Growing Up by Russell Baker 3/5
• 1983 - The Innocent Antropologist by Nigel Barley 3/5
• 1985 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks 3/5
• 1985 - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynmann 3/5
• 1986 - One Man and His Bog by Barry Pilton 4/5
• 1988 - Touching the Void by Joe Simpson 4/5
• 1988 - One Man and His Log by Barry Pilton 4/5
• 1989 - The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson 5/5

1990s

• 1990 - The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson 4/5
• 1991 - Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson 4/5
• 1992 - Wild Swans by Jung Chang 4/5
• 1992 - Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 3/5
• 1993 - The Road to Nab End by William Woodruff 3/5
• 1993 - Stand Before Your God by Paul Watkins 3/5
• 1994 - From Wimbledon to Waco by Nigel Williams 2/5
• 1994 - Longitude by Dava Sobel 4/5
• 1994 - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt - 3/5
• 1995 - Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson 4/5
• 1995 - Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra 2/5
• 1995 - Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh 4/5
• 1995 - The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald 3/5
• 1995 - A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer 3/5
• 1996 - British Railway Disasters by Ian Allan 4/5
• 1996 - Football Grounds of Britain by Simon Inglis 4/5
• 1996 - The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks 3/5
• 1997 - Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry 3/5
• 1997 - The Empire State Building by John Tauranac 4/5
• 1997 - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby 3/5
• 1998 - Losing my Virginity by Richard Branson 3/5
• 1998 - Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson 3/5
• 1998 - Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks 4/5
• 1998 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson 4/5
• 1998 - The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean 2/5
• 1998 - Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam 3/5
• 1998 - A Walk Through Time by Liebes, Sahtouris and Swimme 3/5
• 1998 - Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind 3/5
• 1998 - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman 4/5
• 1998 - Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 3/5
• 1999 - Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart 3/5
• 1999 - Just Checking by Emily Colas 2/5
• 1999 - Tainted Life by Marc Almond 2/5
• 1999 - My Movie Business by John Irving 2/5
• 1999 - Mathematics: The New Golden Age by Keith Devlin 3/5

2000s

• 2000 - Down Under by Bill Bryson 3/5
• 2000 - Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks 5/5
• 2000 - Leadville by Edward Platt 3/5
• 2001 - The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester 3/5
• 2002 - Are You Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman 3/5
• 2002 - Old London Bridge by Patricia Pierce 3/5
• 2002 - Four Colours Suffice by Robin Wilson 3/5
• 2003 - Beyond Nab End by William Woodruff 4/5
• 2003 - Googlewhack Adventure by Dave Gorman 3/5
• 2003 - One Hit Wonderland by Tony Hawks 3/5
• 2003 - Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss 4/5
• 2003 - Join Me by Danny Wallace 3/5
• 2003 - Toast by Nigel Slater 3/5
• 2003 - A Million Little Pieces by James Frey 4/5
• 2003 - Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance by Martin Gurdon 3/5
• 2004 - The Boy With No Shoes by William Horwood 3/5
• 2004 - Castles in the Air by Judy Corbett 3/5
• 2004 - Grumpy Old Men by Stuart Prebble 3/5
• 2004 - Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down 3/5
• 2004 - The Twelve Little Cakes by Dominika Dery 3/5
• 2005 - Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku 2/5
• 2005 - Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters 3/5
• 2005 - Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner 3/5
• 2006 - The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen 2/5
• 2006 - The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay 4/5
• 2007 - About the Size of It by Warwick Cairns 3/5
• 2007 - Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson 3/5
• 2008 - Planet Google by Randall Stross 3/5
• 2008 - The eBay Phenomenon by Elen Lewis 3/5
• 2008 - The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson 3/5
• 2009 - Saturday Night Peter by Peter Kay 4/5

2010s

• 2010 - A Street Cat Named Bob James Bowen 3/5
• 2011 - Cream Teas, Traffic Jams and Sunburn by Brian Viner 3/5
• 2013 - Levels of Life by Julian Barnes 2/5

2020s

• 2021 - In Plain Sight by Ross Coulthart 3/5

Did not complete

• Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter