What were the non-children's books you remember as a child in your house?

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In mine it was:
The James Heriot "All Creatures Great and Small" series.
A range of Stephen King.
Catherine Cookson galore.
A really ancient, mouldy St James (?I think) Bible which stank and had some kind of infestation (not even religious so not sure why we had it).
An awful book called, I think, "Drum" about slaves in the southern states of America.

I'm sure there were more but those are the ones that stick in my mind. What a weird selection! I wish I could say it was all a mixture of classics and quirky novels but nope, that was it.

The Monty Python Bok
Mysteries of the Unexplained by Reader’s Digest
Flowers in the Attic
Lots of James Herbert.

A full set of Waverley encyclopedias, including the book of knowledge and book of words.
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I always remember Lives of the Queens of England by Antonia Fraser.

I think the only one who ever opened it was me!

Funnily, there were lots of non-fiction books - mainly historical or cookery, but no fiction. DF read a lot of fiction, but only from the library. My house is almost exactly the opposite. We have hundreds of fiction books and only a handful of non-fiction.

Bodywatching - a photographic book that my Dad (aged approx 21) bought my mum (aged approx 28) -loads of incredible photos of various parts of human bodies - I remember it's the first time I saw David Bowie's different eyes back in the 80s

Pears Cyclopaedia
Reader's Digest
Agatha Christie
Tom Clancy
White Line Fever - discovering hidden in my Dad's garage. My first intro to soft porn. Discovered years later that it was my brother's first soft porn intro too!

Loads of all kinds of fiction and non-fiction books but Fear of Flying and Kinflicks were particularly memorable reads.

Reader's Digest book of facts.

Lots of maths/physic degree level book.

A small abridged version of Corrie Ten Boom's autobiography. I read it thinking it was a children's book because of the size, when I was about 6yo and then slightly horrified my mum by coming and asking direct questions about concentration camps and WWII.

TheNoodlesIncident our copy was red mock leather and was a pair with The Universal Home Lawyer (very dull). I loved the medical pictures too and when I was 7 I gave a little talk in school on the symptoms and treatment of infantile paralysis aka poliomyelitis!
I was an avid reader and to this day I feel twitchy if I don’t have a book to hand.

The Dune series
Everyday Reform Cooking (the source of 90% of my lentil heavy childhood meals)
Readers Digest book of childhood diseases
Mrs Beatons book of household management circa 1930
The Joy of Sex

Lots of books, but an eclectic mix.
My mum had a nursing manual from the 1950s which was horrifying. Dad had lots of Stephen King. We had two enormous Readers Digest editions of Kafka and Orwell which I worked through. The Encyclopaedia Britannica. I remember Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor, oddly. And lots of random recipe books - a Good Housekeeping “cook anything” tome which I still refer to when home.

I can't remember any at all, which surprises me.

One of my pleasures at the moment is the National Trust second hand bookshops, obviously donated by people of my parents' generation having clear outs, it's fun to see one there that I'd forgotten but remembered we had

I smiled when I saw this thread, what a great title.
I'm repeating what others have said,
Readers Digest--pretendy leather ones, also RD-
DIY encyclopedia
Gardening

Diary of an Edwardian Lady!!! Lots of watercolour flowers and brown calligraphy.
James Herriot
Papillon
Stephen King
Some book called Fireside Friends/companions ?!
Curry cookbooks
Ideas for Picnics (all that Tupperware!)
Ordance survey maps, places we'd not go to again but hey no Google back then!

It was in list form when I posted it, sorry

A fair few, including a 70s cookbook I would love to track down! One particularly disturbing memory is finding and reading a book about a girl who had been 'possesed' by the devil???! There were pictures too! Very inappropriate book to have left about for a curious young girl

My parents were keen readers and library goers in my youth so I remember a lot of the books here. My mother's cooking bible was The Hamlin All Colour Cookbook, and I vividly remember the Dairy Cookbook pictured below, she's probably still got it.
More pleasant reading was Betty MacDonalds The Plague And I And The Egg And I but
the books that really stick in my head are the elicitly read ones that freaked me out, namely, James Herberts The Rats, The Exorcist, a few of Dennis Wheatley's, Erica Jongs Fear Of Flying which I thought was fascinating and boring in equal measure. Even now, over 40 years later, I remember the zipless fuck and the man with intimate hygiene issues skid marks on the sheetslike it was yesterday!

Oops forgot photo!

Russian cookbook with vegetables embossed on the leather cover
Anatomy encyclopaedia
Jurassic park
Lots of Sherlock homes
Lots of Agatha Christie
Very old Russian to English dictionary with an olive green cover
A book about how to fit into Australian culture
Jane Eyre in a bark red leather cover
Lots of readers digest books
Very random mix. They probably made more sense in the context of our wider book selection but they are the ones I remember