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Non-Fiction Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Non-Fiction books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Non-Fiction series? Start with "A London Letter" (1940) and follow publication order through all 67 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
A London Letter
1940
Louis MacNeice
1940
Obscurity and Dylan Thomas
1940
Restoration Comedy
1945
Strategy in War - and Peace
1947
Low-Down on the Left
1947
The Big Five
1947
A Pack of Cards
1947
Live Words Among the Dead
1947
Between Two Beards
1947
Pick Your Poet
1948
What Makes a Criminal?
1948
Antidote, Tonic - or Escape?
1948
The Biggest Problem in the World
1948
A Bird in the Bush
1948
Who Is Our Best Read Novelist?
1949
They Took the Long Jump to Freedom
1949
Which Is the True Russia?
1949
These Make Good Holiday Reading
1949
I Call It Detective Fever
1949
The Poet and the Theatre
1950
Genius, Crank or Dabbler?
1950
The Man Who Went to Moscow
1950
Nation Looking for a Cure-All
1950
The Man Who Hated the Poor ...
1950
Three Ways to See a Country
1950
Snail Tea for Breakfast?
1950
Shavians Without Knowing it
1950
Cat Naps and a High Jump
1950
How to Get Away from It All
1950
Sophocles in Three Scenes
1950
Poets' Plight
1950
When the Balloons Went Up
1950
Charles Dickens
1951
Novels of Four Nations
1951
The Last of the Edwardian Giants ...
1951
Thomas Carlyle The Life and Ideas of Prophet
1952
Bloomsburyites - They Started It All
1954
Dodgers, Scroungers & a Captain at Sea
1954
Arthur James Cook (Gamblers with Fate)
1954
Whitaker Wright (Gamblers with Fate)
1954
Horatio Bottomley;: A biography
1955
Murder - Plus Good Writing
1955
Kruschev Said 'Come and See What We're Like'
1955
What It's Like to Be 'On the Run'
1955
They Worked So Hard to Be Gay
1955
Did Spiritual Exercises Really Cure Eva Barton?.
1957
One Thing They All Said: SUBUD Makes You into a Different Person
1957
Frank Cousins under the Microscope
1958
The Enigma of Frank Cousins
1958
Cousins Can\'t Make Them Cry
1958
A Reasonable Doubt
1960
England's pride: The story of the Gordon Relief Expedition
1966
Crime and Detection : an illustrated history from 1840.
1966
Bloody Murder
1972
Between the Wars
1972
Notes From Another Country
1972
The Thirties
1973
Buller's Campaign
1974
The Angry 30's
1976
A Touch of Fowles\' Play
1977
The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
1978
Critical Observations
1981
Agatha Christie, the Art of Her Crimes (With: Tom Adams)
1981
A.J.A. Symons, His Life And Speculations
1986
Makers of the New
1987
Conan Doyle: Portrait of an Artist
1989
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