30 day blog challenge: Day 14 — A non-fictional book

once again, i'm umming and ahhing between two.  one by a hero of mine (astonishingly, not Neil Gaiman.  yes - i have other heroes! *le gasp*)  and another by one of my favourite DJs (of which there are few).

i read very few non-fiction books.  in fact, it may even be two a year or less.  just for fun, i'm going to try to remember and list all of the non-fiction books i've ever read (and please forgive my faulty memory)...

1. life on air - david attenborough (the former)
2. thank you for the days - mark radcliffe (the latter - there's that lovely word again! :)
3. are you dave gorman? - dave gorman and danny wallace
4. yes man - danny wallace
5. a history of the british isles (or 2000 years of upper class twits in charge) {or soething along those lines, anyway} - john lloyd (er...i think...?)
6. three by a lady whose name i can't recall, nor the book titles, but they concerned her experiences of going off to live the life of a scottish island crofter in the 1950s and were very intersting, and often extremely funny
7. several by james herriot, a country vet in the yorkshire dales - also incredibly funny and often very poignant.
8. one by gervais finn, possibly called the other side of the dale (?)
9. in search of captain zero, and, can't you get along with anyone? - alan c weisbecker
10. boy - roald dahl
11. red dog - louis de bernieres
12. biographies of pink floyd, billy connolly, bill hicks
13. wicked plants - amy stewart

that's about it.  an average of not even one per year that i've been an inveterate, obsessive reader. or even a willing one, really (my gran gave me a copy of the famous five when i was abought eight, and i turned into a reader overnight).  for those who really care, this timespan is 26 years - longer than my sister-in-bloggery, Liz, has been alive.

argh.  *feels old*

ok, having done that list, i realise that  can't pick just one.  somehow, it's harder to pick from a small group than it is from a big group.  it's not that i don't want to hurt the others' feelings, or anything.  well....ok, maybe a bit...but books are people too!

*cough*

but it depends on what i might think you're after as to which one i'm more likely to wave under your nose saying, "you HAVE to read this!!!"

aaaaaaanyway.....

a small list to chose from.  although, thinking about it, there's one i have yet to mention that stands head-and-shoulders above all of these.   above any book ever written, in fact.

for me, at least, the hands-down winner is this nonfiction book.

i heart it.  thanks for teaching me about it, grandad. X


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