I’ve learn 5,000 books – these are the ten greatest non-fiction reads ever | UK | News | EUROtoday

On Jun 7, 2025

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But numerous individuals don’t learn that a lot fiction (blokes, I’m you) so listed below are my top-ten non fiction books of all time…

Reach for the Ground

9. Reach For the Ground by Jeffrey Bernard (1996)

Notorious for the chaotic, alcohol-soaked Soho way of life that supplied a solid of unforgettable characters in his weekly Low Life column in The Spectator journal over 20 years, journalist and drinker Jeffrey Bernard, pictured in his beloved Coach & Horses, was immortalised by his good friend and fellow hack Keith Waterhouse in his 1989 play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell. This assortment of Bernard’s greatest work, subtitled The Downhill Struggle of Jeffrey Bernard, retains the flexibility to shock and delight, tempered with a way of rising doom at its writer’s self-destructive tendencies (his leg was amputated following problems from diabetes and he died aged simply 65). A window into the forgotten world of Soho in its prime.
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In Cold Blood

7. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1965)

The US author and socialite is credited by many for inventing (or a minimum of radically popularising) the style of true crime together with his 1965 e-book in regards to the murders of the Clutter household in rural Kansas. Having arrived two days after the funerals, over the following 4 years of painstaking analysis, Capote turned acquainted with everybody concerned within the investigation and with the chums and neighbours of the victims. When two ex-convicts, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, have been arrested for the murders, Capote befriended them too. They have been each executed on April 14, 1965. The e-book made Capote a literary celebrity, although there have been claims of exaggeration and sensationalism. To at the present time it stays an totally gripping learn that can rib you of sleep.
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