The best in creative non-fiction

A Listmania! list by R Hamblyn (London)
 
Oranges (Penguin Modern Classics)
1.  Oranges (Penguin Modern Classics) by John McPhee
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  "A well-nigh perfect example of elegant and instructive non-fiction writing."
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The Snow Geese
2.  The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
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  "A wonderful memoir about the multiple meanings of home."
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The Measure Of All Things
3.  The Measure Of All Things by Ken Alder
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  "That rare thing: a history book that really does read like a novel."
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Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics)
4.  Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics) by James Boswell
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  "The greatest and most creative biography ever written."
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Waterland
5.  Waterland by Graham Swift
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  "This is, in my view, a work of non-non-fiction: a novel so closely allied to history that it is, to all intents and purposes, a work of history in itself."
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Rings Of Saturn
6.  Rings Of Saturn by W G Sebald
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  "More non-non-fiction. Anything by W.G. Sebald is well worth reading, but this is undoubtedly his masterpiece."
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Up in the Old Hotel: And Other Stories
7.  Up in the Old Hotel: And Other Stories by Joseph Mitchell
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  "The collected works of the New Yorker's incomporable stylist, and a scandalously underrated writer outside the States."
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Storm of Steel (Penguin Modern Classics)
8.  Storm of Steel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ernst Junger
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  "An eyewitness account like no other you will ever read. Haunting and graphic, this is first-person history at its most compelling."
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Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia
9.  Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia by Charlotte Hobson
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  "A real travel book, and a genuine attempt to get to grips with another culture."
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Landscape and Memory
10.  Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
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  "An extraordinary, and in some ways unprecedented study of the cultural meanings of the natural world. Written before he was famous..."
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