History
Letters, diaries (non travel related), biography/autobiography
Children of the Killing Fields (Dith Pran)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The Diary of John Evelyn
Journal of Emily Shore
The Lives of the Artists (Giorgio Vasari)
Letters on England (Voltaire)
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Olaudah Equiano)
The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives (Sebastian Faulks)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
Journals and Letters (Frances Burney)
The London Journal 1762- 1763 (James Boswell)
Rural Rides (William Cobbett)
Diary of a Country Parson, 1758 – 1802 (James Woodforde)
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
The Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
The Life of Samuel Johnson (James Boswell)
The Pillow Book (Sei Shonagon)
Other
Taste: The Story of Britain Through its Cooking (Kate Colquhoun)
The Shocking History of Advertising (E S Turner)
London: The Biography (Peter Ackroyd)
Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism (Neil Ascherson)
A History of Wales (John Davies)
Chronicles of the Crusades (Joinville & Villehardouin)
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America (John Charles Chasteen)
On Sparta (Plutarch)
The Histories (Herodotus)
London Labour and the London Poor (Henry Mayhew)
Chronicles (Froissart)
Prehistory of Australia (John Mulvaney)
Made in America (Bill Bryson)
The Faber Book of Reportage (John Carey)