Non-Fiction Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Non-Fiction books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
A London Letter
Buy on Amazon1940
Louis MacNeice
Buy on Amazon1940
Obscurity and Dylan Thomas
Buy on Amazon1940
Restoration Comedy
Buy on Amazon1945
Strategy in War - and Peace
Buy on Amazon1947
Low-Down on the Left
Buy on Amazon1947
The Big Five
Buy on Amazon1947
A Pack of Cards
Buy on Amazon1947
Live Words Among the Dead
Buy on Amazon1947
Between Two Beards
Buy on Amazon1947
Pick Your Poet
Buy on Amazon1948
What Makes a Criminal?
Buy on Amazon1948
Antidote, Tonic - or Escape?
Buy on Amazon1948
The Biggest Problem in the World
Buy on Amazon1948
A Bird in the Bush
Buy on Amazon1948
Who Is Our Best Read Novelist?
Buy on Amazon1949
They Took the Long Jump to Freedom
Buy on Amazon1949
Which Is the True Russia?
Buy on Amazon1949
These Make Good Holiday Reading
Buy on Amazon1949
I Call It Detective Fever
Buy on Amazon1949
The Poet and the Theatre
Buy on Amazon1950
Genius, Crank or Dabbler?
Buy on Amazon1950
The Man Who Went to Moscow
Buy on Amazon1950
Nation Looking for a Cure-All
Buy on Amazon1950
The Man Who Hated the Poor ...
Buy on Amazon1950
Three Ways to See a Country
Buy on Amazon1950
Snail Tea for Breakfast?
Buy on Amazon1950
Shavians Without Knowing it
Buy on Amazon1950
Cat Naps and a High Jump
Buy on Amazon1950
How to Get Away from It All
Buy on Amazon1950
Sophocles in Three Scenes
Buy on Amazon1950
Poets' Plight
Buy on Amazon1950
When the Balloons Went Up
Buy on Amazon1950
Charles Dickens
Buy on Amazon1951
Novels of Four Nations
Buy on Amazon1951
The Last of the Edwardian Giants ...
Buy on Amazon1951
Thomas Carlyle The Life and Ideas of Prophet
Buy on Amazon1952
Bloomsburyites - They Started It All
Buy on Amazon1954
Dodgers, Scroungers & a Captain at Sea
Buy on Amazon1954
Arthur James Cook (Gamblers with Fate)
Buy on Amazon1954
Whitaker Wright (Gamblers with Fate)
Buy on Amazon1954
Horatio Bottomley;: A biography
Buy on Amazon1955
Murder - Plus Good Writing
Buy on Amazon1955
Kruschev Said 'Come and See What We're Like'
Buy on Amazon1955
What It's Like to Be 'On the Run'
Buy on Amazon1955
They Worked So Hard to Be Gay
Buy on Amazon1955
Did Spiritual Exercises Really Cure Eva Barton?.
Buy on Amazon1957
One Thing They All Said: SUBUD Makes You into a Different Person
Buy on Amazon1957
Frank Cousins under the Microscope
Buy on Amazon1958
The Enigma of Frank Cousins
Buy on Amazon1958
Cousins Can\'t Make Them Cry
Buy on Amazon1958
A Reasonable Doubt
Buy on Amazon1960
England's pride: The story of the Gordon Relief Expedition
Buy on Amazon1966
Crime and Detection : an illustrated history from 1840.
Buy on Amazon1966
Bloody Murder
Buy on Amazon1972
Between the Wars
Buy on Amazon1972
Notes From Another Country
Buy on Amazon1972
The Thirties
Buy on Amazon1973
Buller's Campaign
Buy on Amazon1974
The Angry 30's
Buy on Amazon1976
A Touch of Fowles\' Play
Buy on Amazon1977
The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Buy on Amazon1978
Critical Observations
Buy on Amazon1981
Agatha Christie, the Art of Her Crimes (With: Tom Adams)
Buy on Amazon1981
A.J.A. Symons, His Life And Speculations
Buy on Amazon1986
Makers of the New
Buy on Amazon1987
Conan Doyle: Portrait of an Artist
Buy on Amazon1989
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Non-Fiction series is publication order: 1. A London Letter (1940), 2. Louis MacNeice (1940), 3. Obscurity and Dylan Thomas (1940), 4. Restoration Comedy (1945), 5. Strategy in War - and Peace (1947), and 62 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Non-Fiction series by Julian Symons contains 67 books. The series began in 1940 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Non-Fiction series is written by Julian Symons. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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