Non-fiction
Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, by M.J. Simpson (2006)
Café Europa: Life after Communism, by Slavenka Drakulić (2006)
The Cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva, by Arthur Kavanagh (2008)
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton (2020)
The Combined Election: an analysis of the combined Parliamentary and District Council elections in Northern Ireland on 7th June 2001, by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (2024)

Non-genre
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho (2006)
Eleven on Top, by Janet Evanovich (2006)
The Successor, by Ismail Kadarë (2007)

Poetry
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (2012)

SF
What Ifs?™ of American History, edited by Robert Cowley (2007)
“Goat Song”, by Poul Anderson (2019)
The Monster’s Wife, by Kate Horsley (2021)

The best
He’s an awful man, writing about another awful man, but I really enjoyed The Room Where It Happened, where John Bolton tells us about working with Donald Trump. (Review; get it here.)

Honorable mention
The Successor is one of those intense Eastern European novels; even if you know nothing about Albania and its politics, you’ll find it creepy and lingering. (Review; get it here.)

The one you haven’t heard of
Also in that part of the world but a century earlier, Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh MP set off on his yacht to tour the Ionian Islands in The Cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva; all the more interesting because he had no arms or legs. (Review; get it here.)

The one to avoid
I’m sorry, folks, but most of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is self-indulgent rubbish. (Review; get it here.)