Nonfiction:

For discussion of my poor record for non-fiction, click on the image below.

Psychology

Richard Crisp The Social Brain
Charles Fernyhough The Voices Within
Cordelia Fine Testosterone Rex 

Therapy and mental health

Martin Baker and Fran Houston High Tide, Low Tide
JM Coetzee & Arabella Kurtz The Good Story
Stephen Grosz The Examined Life
Jackie Kay Red Dust Road  
Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?  
Susie Orbach In Therapy
Andrew Scull Museums of Madness
Susie Stead Stephen from the Inside Out

Reading and writing

Samantha Ellis How to be a Heroine
Emily Midorikawa & Emma Claire Sweeney A Secret Sisterhood
James Wood The Nearest Thing to Life

History, culture and society

Richard Atkinson Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract
Akala Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Piero Boitani A New Sublime
Michael Bond Wayfinding
Annie Ernaux Happening
Amelia Gentleman The Windrush Betrayal
Dalia Grinkevičiūtė Shadows on the Tundra
Jonathan Keates The Messiah
Alison Jean Lester Absolutely Delicious: a Chronicle of Extraordinary Dying
Geoff Le Pard Apprenticed to My Mother
Thomas More Utopia
Emily Morris My Shitty Twenties
Stephen Moss Skylarks with Rosie
Ingrid von Oelhafen & Tim Tate  Hitler’s Forgotten Children
Mary Seacole Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
Sharon Shoesmith Learning from Baby P
Jonny Steinberg A Man of Good Hope