To ask you to name-drop your favourite non-fiction books?

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Just that really - please and thanks!

Sex and other Emergency Measures.
Read it when I was an Intern at the UN in New York. It’s about a group of Peacekeepers in Haiti amongst other places. Changed me and my life.

I love a book called Vanilla Beans and Brodo by a lady called Isabella Dusi about life in a Tuscan village.

The Feather Thief. It’s completely compelling and brilliant.

For me, it's generally historical.

The Roses of No Man's Land - Lyn Macdonald
The Viceroy's Daughters - Anne de Courcy

And I also love a good biography of a 'flapper' or silent movie star.

I've read a couple of excellent ones on Louise Brooks and Clara Bow.

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
Blood River by Tim Butcher
Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir
I Am I Am I Am by Maggie O'Farrell

This is the best thread for ages!

Another recommendation is Denial by Deborah Lipstadt. She was a Jewish professor who had to defend herself in a libel case brought by a holocaust denier.

I can't wait to start searching for some of these.

So many to try - shamelessly placemarking!

I struggle to read fiction, actually. so my list should be longer, tbh. I'll suggest

Full Tilt - Dervla Murphy
Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
Malcolm X
Do No Harm - Henry Marsh
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell

Good Reads List is useful.

Oh yes to Between the Stops by Sandi Toksvig. It's a wonderful meander, and full of inspirational women.

Step by Step by Simon Reeve.

McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy.

The Moon's a Balloon and Bring On the Empty Horses by David Niven.

News From Tartary by Peter Fleming. About a trip from Peking to Kashmir in 1935.

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman. Utter brilliance.

Travels with my donkey is one of my favourites too

Oh and Cider With Rosie of course.

Oh, and I can't believe I forgot The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes. So very funny.

Ben Goldacre: Bad Science

Atul Gawande: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Matthew Cobb: The Idea of the Brain

Lisa Genova: Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

Alison Gopnik: The Philosophical Baby

Lisa Feldman Barrett: Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Anything by Jon Ronson!

Oliver Sacks: An Anthropologist on Mars (better IMO than his more famous The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat)

Steve Silberman: Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism

Christian Jarrett: Great Myths of the Brain

Alice Gregory: Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave

Carl Zimmer: She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Story of Heredity, Its Past, Present and Future

Marcus du Sautoy: The Number Mysteries

Marcus du Sautoy: How to Count to Infinity

Isabel Hardman: Why We Get the Wrong Politicians

Simon Schama: Rough Crossings

Simon Schama: The Story of the Jews (two books published so far in a three-part series)

David Olusoga: Black and British: A Forgotten History

Kerry Hudson: Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

These are my most recommended non fiction books to friends:

David Lammy - Tribes (anyone interested in politics should read this)
Lowborn - Kerry Hudson (a beautiful and heartbreaking travelogue/memoir about growing up in poverty)
Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine (a bit dated but fascinating book about science and the history gender stereotypes)
Lost in Music - Giles Smith (a great book for music obsessives)

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall, utterly fascinating. Also his one about flags.

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey - Isabella Fonseca

The Crossing Place - Philip Marsden (travels in Armenia)

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Kate Summerscale. Much more than true crime, and absolutely deserved its popularity.

Besieged - Barbara Demick (currently reading her Eat the Buddha, which is fascinating.)

Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer.

Nothing to envy. It's about people living in North Korea. Fantastic book

I was going to say In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, but someone beat me to it as I was refreshing the screen .

Erebus by Micheal palin.
Into thin air
The shining mountain
No way down

I like an adventure book!

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Nothing to envy. It's about people living in North Korea. Fantastic book

Ooh yes, this is great. Best book I’ve read about North Korea and I’ve read several!

Bookworm Lucy Mangan
Educated Tara Westover
Kick Paula Bryne
These Silent Mansions Jean Sprackland

The Adventures of Maud West Susannah Stapleton
British Nannies and the Great War Louise Heren
Let's Do It;The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood Jasper Rees
A Tomb With a View Peter Ross
The Century Girls Tessa Dunlop
The Library Book Susan Orlean
The Cut Out Girl Bart Van Es
Ladies Don't Climb Ladders Jane Robinson

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House of Glass by Hadley Freeman. Just a brilliant book.

Hadley Freeman is a staunch defender of child molester Woody Allen, and other violent men. I wouldn't give her a penny.

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
Read this for the first time aged 11 as it was a text for my dsis O level.
Couldn't put it down.