User:GrahamHardy/Non-fiction

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

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

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