Non-fiction is the New Fiction

A Listmania! list by Andrew Collins
 
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
1.  Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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  "Thrilling glimpse into the Bolshevik inner circle. The magnates and commisars leap off the page."
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A Short History Of Nearly Everything
2.  A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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  "Bryson is the best science teacher you never had. Worth it just to have learned about Thomas Midgley."
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Our Final Century: The 50/50 Threat to Humanity's Survival: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century?
3.  Our Final Century: The 50/50 Threat to Humanity's Survival: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? by Martin Rees
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  "Gloomy? I should say so. But the astronomer royal is a man to be listened to."
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Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
4.  Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets by Joanna Blythman
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  "You will never darken the doors of a supermarket ever again. Or at least not without thinking."
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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
5.  Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
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  "Proves that you can love a history book written by a Tory."
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The Second World War
6.  The Second World War by John Keegan
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  "Proves that you can love a war book written by a Tory."
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The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
7.  The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock by John Harris
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  "Harris knows how to tell a story and to set it in context."
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Killing For Company: Case of Dennis Nilsen
8.  Killing For Company: Case of Dennis Nilsen by Brian Masters
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  "You have to understand evil, in my opinion."
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What the Label Doesn't Tell You
9.  What the Label Doesn't Tell You by Sue Dibb
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  "This book actually changed my life."
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The Battle for the Falklands (Pan Grand Strategy)
10.  The Battle for the Falklands (Pan Grand Strategy) by Sir Max Hastings
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  "I was a teenager at the time. I wish I'd understood it as I do now."
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The Selling of the President
11.  The Selling of the President by Joe McGinniss
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  "Thanks to Tom Wolfe's New Journalism anthology for the tip-off."
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Nothing
12.  Nothing by Paul Morley
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  "Now that's what I call a memoir,"
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Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris
13.  Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
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  "I actually read this on holiday."
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The World We're in
14.  The World We're in by Will Hutton
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  "Read this on holiday too. Then a Jackie Collins. (True.)"
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Hawks on Hawks: Foreward by Quentin Tarantino (Directors on Directors)
15.  Hawks on Hawks: Foreward by Quentin Tarantino (Directors on Directors) by Joseph McBride
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  "Love Hawks. Love McBride. Love this freewheeling book."
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