 | Oranges (Penguin Modern Classics) by John McPhee
Buy used from: £12.94 A well-nigh perfect example of elegant and instructive non-fiction writing.
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 | The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
Buy new: £0.02 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderful memoir about the multiple meanings of home.
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 | The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 That rare thing: a history book that really does read like a novel.
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 | The Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics) by James Boswell
Buy used from: £3.25 The greatest and most creative biography ever written.
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 | Waterland by Graham Swift
Buy used from: £1.39 This is, in my view, a work of non-non-fiction: a novel so closely allied to history that it is, to all intents and purposes, a work of history in itself.
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 | Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.00 More non-non-fiction. Anything by W.G. Sebald is well worth reading, but this is undoubtedly his masterpiece.
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 | Up in the Old Hotel: And Other Stories by Joseph Mitchell
Buy new: £140.15 / Used from: £12.22 The collected works of the New Yorker's incomporable stylist, and a scandalously underrated writer outside the States.
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 | Storm of Steel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ernst Junger
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.50 An eyewitness account like no other you will ever read. Haunting and graphic, this is first-person history at its most compelling.
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 | Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia by Charlotte Hobson
Buy new: £2.58 / Used from: £0.01 A real travel book, and a genuine attempt to get to grips with another culture.
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 | Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
Buy used from: £19.99 An extraordinary, and in some ways unprecedented study of the cultural meanings of the natural world. Written before he was famous...
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