Alex In Leeds

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List of Books/Topics Read (Non-Fiction)

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I’m indexing the Non-Fiction books two ways, below is the A-Z by author listing for general browsing, down at the bottom of the page is the Topic list so you can dive straight into the Books About Books (for example).

BY AUTHOR

Ackroyd, Peter – Wilkie Collins
Aksakov, Sergei – A Russian Gentleman
Allan, David – Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England
Allin, Michael – Zarafa: A Giraffe’s True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris
Ashbee, Felicity – For The Duration: A Lighthearted WAAF Memoir
Armstrong, Karen – Beginning The World
Armitage, Simon – Walking Home
Athill, Diana – Stet: An Editor’s Life

Bainbridge, Beryl – English Journey
Batsford, Brian Cook – The Britain of Brian Cook
Battles, Matthew – Library, An Unquiet History
Bennett, Penelope – Window-Box Allotment – A Beginner’s Guide to Container Gardening
Berners-Lee, Tim – Weaving the Web
Betjeman, John – In Praise of Churches
Biddlecombe, Gay – A Vine Romance: Tales From An English Vineyard
Bloom, Clive – Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900
Bourdain, Anthony – Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Brears, Peter – Of Curiosities and Rare Things: The Story of Leeds City Museums
Brennan, Georgeanne – Potager: Fresh Garden Cooking in the French Style
Buzbee, Lewis – The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Carhart, T E – The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Carnegie, Dale – How To Win Friends and Influence People
Chesterton, Ada – In Darkest London
Chomsky, Noam – The Prosperous Few and The Restless Many
Clements, Jonathan – A Brief History of the Vikings
Cochrane, John Dundas – A Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary
Conefrey, Mick – Everest 1953: The First Ascent to the Roof of the World
Crane, David – The Kindness of Sisters: Annabella Milbanke and the Destruction of the Byrons

Dahl, Roald and Felicity – Memories With Food at Gipsy House
Dallas, Gregor – Metrostop Paris: History From The City’s Heart
Doherty, Paul – Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II
Dusoulier, Clotilde – Chocolate and Zucchini

Edmundson, William – The Nitrate King

Fadiman, Anne – Ex Libris
Fairbairns, Judy – Island Wife
Fermor, Patrick Leigh – Between The Woods and The Water
Flanders, Judith – The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London
Flint, Kate – The Woman Reader 1837-1914
Foot, Sarah – Athelstan: The First King of England
Francis, Richard – Ann the Word

Garden, Graeme – Stovold’s Mornington Crescent Almanac 2002
Garfield, Simon - Just My Type
Gorman, Dave – Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure
Gehl, Jan – Cities for People
Gourevitch, Philip – We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
Griffin, Chas – Scenes from a Smallholding
Gummer, Benedict – The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles
Gustafson, Katherine – Change Comes To Dinner

Hachisu, Nancy Singleton – Japanese Farm Food
Hand, T W – Leeds Public Libraries 1870-1920
Hanff, Helene – 84 Charing Cross Road
Hartley, Catharine – To the Poles (Without a Beard)
Hessayon, Dr D G – The Fruit Expert
Hessayon, Dr D G – The Vegetable & Herb Expert
Hicks, Bill – Love All The People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
Hicks, Carola – The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece
Hill, Paul – The Anglo-Saxons: The Verdict of History
Hindley, Geoffrey – A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons
Hodgkin, R H – A History Of The Anglo-Saxons Vols I and II
Holdforth, Lucinda – True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris
Humphreys, Neil – Notes From An Even Smaller Island
Humphrys, John – The Great Food Gamble

Jackson, H J – Marginalia: Readers Writing In Books
James, P D – Time To Be In Earnest: A Fragment Of Autobiography
Jamie, Kathleen – Findings

Kingston, Karen – Clear Your Clutter
Krakauer, Jon – Into The Wild

Lambert, Derek – Spanish Lessons
Lawrence, Felicity – Not On The Label
Leendertz, Lia – Indoor Plants: What to Grow/How to Grow It
Lewis, Jeremy – Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane
Lord, Walter – A Night To Remember

Mah, Adeline Yen – Falling Leaves
Maitland, Sara – Gossip from the Forest
Maude, Thomas – Guided By A Stone-Mason
Maugham, W Somerset – On Literature
Menzies, Gavin – 1421: The Year China Discovered The World
Moore, Peter - Swahili For The Broken Hearted
Moore, Rowan – Why We Build
Moore, Tim – French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France
Moran, Caitlin – How To Be A Woman
Morton, H V – The Heart of London
Moskowitz, Isa Chandra – Vegan With A Vengeance
Murakami, Haruki – Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Murakami, Haruki – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Newsham, Brad – All The Right Places
Nimmo, Ben – In Forkbeard’s Wake: Coasting Around Scandinavia
Nooteboom, Cees – Roads to Berlin

O’Brien, Harriet – Queen Emma and the Vikings
Opdyke, Irene Gut – In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Orwell, George – The Road To Wigan Pier

Palast, Greg – The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Payne, Sandra K – Atkinson Grimshaw: Knight’s Errand
Pearson, Jacqueline – Women’s Reading in Britain 1750-1835
Pepper, Barrie – Old Inns and Pubs of Leeds
Priestley, J B - British Women Go To War
Priestley, J B – Delight
Priestley, J B – English Journey
Pryor, Francis – Britain AD

Quinn, Bill – How Walmart is Destroying America (and the World)

Rex, Peter – 1066: A New History of the Norman Conquest
Richards, Julian C. – Blood of the Vikings
Robbins, Anthony – Notes from a Friend
Robinson, Douglas (editor) – Becoming a Translator
Robinson, Percy – Leeds: Old & New
Rohn, Jim – Seven Strategies for Wealth and Happiness

Sasson, Jean – Princess
Schlosser, Eric – Reefer Madness
Seierstad, Asne – The Bookseller of Kabul
Self, Will – Junk Mail
Self, Will – The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker
Semler, Ricardo - The Seven-Day Weekend
Sharpe, Michael – Family Matters: A History of Genealogy
Smiley, Jane – Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Smit, Tim – Lost Gardens of Heligan
Smyth, Richard – Bloody British History: Leeds
Speakman, Colin – Walk! A Celebration of Striding Out
Starkey, David – Crown and Country
Stein, Gertrude – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes
Summerscale, Kate – Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace

Tarbox, Katie – Katie.com
Taylor, Robert – Simple Pleasures
Thomas, Mark – As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela: Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture Trade
Thomas, Scarlett – Monkeys with Typewriters: How To Write – And Read – Better
Thomson, Hugh - The Green Road Into The Trees: An Exploration of England
Toole, Betty A. – Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers
Tyldesley, Joyce A. – Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt

Venning, Timothy – The Anglo-Saxon Kings

Waal, Edmund de – The Hare With Amber Eyes
Waddington-Feather, John – Leeds, The Heart of Yorkshire
Waller, Maureen – 1700: Scenes From London Life
Ward, Christopher – And The Band Played On…
Whittingstall, Hugh Fearnley – Veg Every Day!
Wildeblood, Peter – Against The Law
Wizenberg, Molly - A Homemade Life
Wood, Harriet Harvey – The Battle of Hastings

Multiple Authors
edited by Alan Walbank – Queens of the Circulating Library
edited by Faye Hammill, Esme Miskimmin, Ashlie Sponenberg – Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing, 1900-1950
edited by David Rose – Sexually I’m More of a Switzerland
edited by Sandra Koa Wing – Our Longest Day: A People’s History of the Second World War
Smith and MacKinnon – Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
Martena Duss and Sissi Holleis – Sweat Shop Paris
edited by Fiorato, Boylston and Knusel – Blood Red Roses
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Humphrey Lyttleton – The Little Book of Mornington Crescent
edited by Hugh Myddleton Butler - A Kirkstall Forge Romance
John Goodchild and Stuart Wrathmell – The King’s Mills, Leeds
Steve Jones and Borin van Loon - Introducing Genetics
edited by Anita Roddick – Take It Personally – How Globalisation Affects You and Powerful Ways To Challenge It
David Miln and Sandra Leicester – Hug The Monster
The Penguin Books’ Great Food Series

BY TOPIC

Architecture
Arts
Biography
Books About Books (and libraries and reading)
City Design
Cookery
Crafting
Essays
Food Politics
Gardening
Genealogy
Globalisation

History
- Ancient
- Anglo-Saxon
- Viking
- Norman
- Medieval
- Tudor
- Stuart
- Civil War
- Restoration
- Georgian
- Victorian
- Edwardian
- WWI
- Long Weekend
- WWII
- Modern
- Military

Humour
Leeds
Nature
Philosophy
Politics
Religion
Science Fact
Self Improvement
Sport
Technology

Travel
- UK
- Africa
- Americas
- Asia
- Europe
- Middle East
- The Poles

Author: Alex in Leeds

Book reviewer, blogger, photographer and adventuress who completed 101 goals in 1001 days. I can be found on Twitter as @AlexInLeeds.

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