We are continuing to celebrate National Non-Fiction November and have been gathering a wonderfully eclectic mix of favourite books from staff and students. They range from the discovery of longitude to advice on how to prepare for your perfect triathlon race and from an important and witty look at the history of sanitation to what makes a psychopath. There really is something for everyone in this developing reading list and plenty of fascinating knowledge to be absorbed. Do you have a factual book recommendation?
The books in bold are currently available in the Library and the rest are coming soon!
- The War on Women by Sue Lloyd-Roberts
- The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis
- Worse Than War – The Assault on Humanity by DJ Goldhagen
- Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy by Gabrielle Coleman
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (volume 1) by Robert Caro
- The Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- Into thin air by Jon Krakauer
- Time Bends by Arthur Miller
- The Hall of Uselessness by Simon Leys
- A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time by Adrian Bardon
- Molecules at an Exhibition by John Emsley
- To the Finish Line: A World Champion Triathlete’s Guide To Your Perfect Race by Chrissie Wellington
- Longitude by Dava Sobel
- Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
- Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and what makes us Human by Matt Ridley
- Rosalind Franklin. The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
- A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- New ideas from dead economists by Todd G. Buchholz
- Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
- The map that changed the world by Simon Winchester
- Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
- Mao’s last dancer by Li Cunxin
- Alive by Piers Paul Read
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- A short book about drawing by Andrew Marr
- The sound of a wild snail eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
- The Wonder Garden by Jenny Broom
- The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Jackie Morris
- The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
- The Big Necessity by Rose George
- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson