Non-fiction reading

This is the page where I’ll be keeping track of all the non-fiction books I’ve read for my 35 Before 35 challenge. My aim is to have read 50 non-fiction books by my 35th birthday.

1. The Importance of Being Trivial: In Search of the Perfect Fact – Mark Mason
2. What Are the Seven Wonders of the World? And Other Cultural Lists: Fully Described – Peter D’Epiro
3. Crimea – Orlando Figes
4. The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel – Nicholas Ostler
5. Captain James Cook – Richard Hough
6. The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary – Simon Winchester
7. Swiss Watching – Diccon Bewes
8. Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870 – Liza Picard
9. Dear Fatty – Dawn French
10. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Rugby But Were Afraid to Ask – Iain Macintosh
11. Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine – Anna Reid
12. Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys Into the Human Brain – Allan Ropper
13. A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation – Daniel Menaker
14. Papillon by Henri Charrière
15. The Potato by Larry Zuckerman
16. Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
17. I am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne and Chris Ayres
18. Bedlam: London and Its Mad by Catharine Arnold
19. The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
20. The Naming of the Shrew by John Wright
21. Seven Brief Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli
22. Peas & Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners by Sandi Toksvig

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