Amazon.co.uk: Top Ten Non-Fiction Books

Top Ten Non-Fiction Books
A Listmania! list by R. P. Sedgwick "Grim Rob" (UK)

1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

The list author says:
	"Brilliantly written autobiographical narrative set in a treatment centre. Reads like a novel, although some bits of it have subsequently emerged as fiction!"

�5.12 Used & New from: �0.01

(186 customer reviews)

2. All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia '90 by Pete Davies

The list author says:
	"It was between this and A Season with Verona as the best football book but this got the nod simply because Pete Davies lived and breathed probably the best world cup in my lifetime."

Used & New from: �78.95

(11 customer reviews)

3. An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan

The list author says:
	"A remarkable tail of incredible stoicism in the face of completely unreasonable adversity,"

�6.39 Used & New from: �0.01

(46 customer reviews)

4. Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab

The list author says:
	"A classic look at an SAS Operation in Iraq."

�6.29 Used & New from: �0.01

(102 customer reviews)

5. Fermat's Last Theorem: The story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years by Simon Singh

The list author says:
	"I've read hundreds of popular science books and several by this author but this is one of the great stories of our times and very well written"

�6.39 Used & New from: �0.27

(159 customer reviews)

6. High Tide: How Climate Crisis is Engulfing Our Planet: News from a Warming World by Mark Lynas

The list author says:
	"Read it and weep"

�7.19 Used & New from: �0.01

(9 customer reviews)

7. The Calendar: The 5000 Year Struggle To Align The Clock and the Heavens, and What Happened To The Missing Ten Days by David Ewing Duncan

The list author says:
	"Everyone should read this just to know what our calendar is all about. Utterly fascinating."

�10.79 Used & New from: �0.01

(18 customer reviews)

8. The Common Thread by John Sulston

The list author says:
	"People will look back on this point in human history as one of its defining moments and this is a first hand account of a vital race to map the human genome and keep it in the public domain."

Used & New from: �0.47

(3 customer reviews)

9. The Newtonian Casino (Penguin Press Science) by Thomas A. Bass

The list author says:
	"A wonderful tale of trying to beat the roulette wheel set in the dawn of the microchip age"

Used & New from: �0.01

(6 customer reviews)

10. Touching The Void by Joe Simpson

The list author says:
	"Describes a situation that few of us can imagine, and if we ever experience anything like it, are very unlikely to tell the tale for the simple reason that we wouldn't live through it."