 | A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.44 Brilliantly written autobiographical narrative set in a treatment centre. Reads like a novel, although some bits of it have subsequently emerged as fiction!
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 | All Played Out: Full Story of Italia '90 by Pete Davies
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.94 It was between this and A Season with Verona as the best football book but this got the nod simply because Pete Davies lived and breathed probably the best world cup in my lifetime.
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 | An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 A remarkable tail of incredible stoicism in the face of completely unreasonable adversity,
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 | Bravo Two-zero by Andy McNab
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.25 A classic look at an SAS Operation in Iraq.
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 | Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.23 I've read hundreds of popular science books and several by this author but this is one of the great stories of our times and very well written
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 | High Tide: News from a Warming World by Mark Lynas
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Read it and weep
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 | The Calendar: The 5000-year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens - and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days by David Ewing Duncan
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Everyone should read this just to know what our calendar is all about. Utterly fascinating.
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 | The Common Thread by John Sulston
Buy used from: £4.85 People will look back on this point in human history as one of its defining moments and this is a first hand account of a vital race to map the human genome and keep it in the public domain.
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 | The Newtonian Casino (Penguin Press Science) by Thomas A. Bass
Buy used from: £0.01 A wonderful tale of trying to beat the roulette wheel set in the dawn of the microchip age
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 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.29 Describes a situation that few of us can imagine, and if we ever experience anything like it, are very unlikely to tell the tale for the simple reason that we wouldn't live through it.
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