I tried both of these on the ferry on Sunday, and bounced off both less than 20 pages in.

July Books 18) The Essence of Christianity, by Ludwig Feuerbach

Writing about a subject I am only vaguely interested in terms which I cannot be bothered to try and understand.

July Books 19) The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Detailed, repetitive, poorly spelt even allowing for the standards of the day, unselfconscious, depressing, even if there had been maps showing where they were going I don’t think I could have stuck it out.

Top unread non-fiction:
Peleponnesian War | Innocents Abroad | Terre des Hommes | The Hero with a Thousand Faces | Race of a Lifetime / Game Change | Proust and the Squid | The Tipping Point | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | Elementary Forms of Religious Life | Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | History of Christianity | History of the World in 100 Objects | A Room of One’s Own | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? | The Last Mughal | Reading the Oxford English Dictionary | Jane Austen | Homage to Catalonia | The Road to Middle Earth | Essence of Christianity | The Strangest Man