Best Books on London (non-fiction)

Description
Intended for books about London and its history - not guide books as such, and non-fictional.
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London: The Biography
by Peter Ackroyd
3,544 members
56 reviews
4
6 Members
staffordcastle, devenish, wandering_star, John_Vaughan, TheFineColumbian, drakeg
3
Thames: Sacred River
by Peter Ackroyd
961 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
staffordcastle, devenish, John_Vaughan
4
London Mini Street Atlas
by Geographers' A–Z Map Company Limited
539 members
2 reviews
3.9
3 Members
Edward, staffordcastle, John_Vaughan
5
Necropolis: London and Its Dead
by Catharine Arnold
686 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
Moomin_Mama, John_Vaughan, TheFineColumbian
6
London Life in the Eighteenth Century
by M. Dorothy George
201 members
1 review
4.2
2 Members
eromsted, drakeg
7
Voices from Dickens' London
by Michael Paterson
74 members
½ 3.5
2 Members
staffordcastle, devenish
8
The London Nobody Knows
by Geoffrey Fletcher
123 members
2 reviews
3.8
2 Members
devenish, John_Vaughan
9
London Labour and the London Poor [incorrectly combined editions]
by Henry Mayhew
15 members
4.2
2 Members
eromsted, drakeg
10
Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End
by Charles Jennings
82 members
1 review
½ 3.3
2 Members
devenish, John_Vaughan
11
Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840--1870
by Liza Picard
726 members
10 reviews
3.9
2 Members
staffordcastle, John_Vaughan
12
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
by Liza Picard
658 members
7 reviews
4
2 Members
staffordcastle, John_Vaughan
13
London: A Social History
by Roy Porter
488 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
John_Vaughan, drakeg
15
The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life
by Virginia Woolf
513 members
12 reviews
4.1
Member
wandering_star
16
Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution
by Dan Jones
411 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
Luchtpint
17
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
by Leo Damrosch
410 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
drakeg
19
Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: Sex in the City in Georgian Britain
by Hallie Rubenhold
135 members
1 review
½ 3.3
Member
Moomin_Mama
20
The Fields Beneath
by Gillian Tindall
120 members
1 review
4.2
Member
Moomin_Mama
22
The Historic Thames
by Hilaire Belloc
46 members
Member
John_Vaughan
23
The city of London
by David Kynaston
25 members
Member
eromsted
25
Liber albus: the white book of the City of London
by John Carpenter
3 members
Member
eromsted
27
Hubbub: Filth, Noise & Stench In England, 1600-1770
by Emily Cockayne
249 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
John_Vaughan
28
Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison
by Jerry White
41 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
drakeg
29
London 1753
by Sheila O'Connell
79 members
½ 3.6
Member
drakeg
30
The Great Fire
by Shirley Hazzard
2,106 members
45 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
John_Vaughan
31
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
by Judith Flanders
652 members
12 reviews
4.1
Member
drakeg
32
1700: Scenes from London Life
by Maureen Waller
444 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
drakeg
33
A Taste of London
by Theodora FitzGibbon
29 members
5
Member
staffordcastle
34
Georgian London
by John Summerson
271 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
drakeg
35
In search of London
by H. V. Morton
215 members
4 reviews
4
Member
John_Vaughan
36
Restoration London: Everyday Life in London 1660-1670
by Liza Picard
687 members
11 reviews
4
Member
John_Vaughan
37
Soft City
by Jonathan Raban
223 members
½ 3.6
Member
John_Vaughan
38
A view of the Thames
by Norman Shrapnel
5 members
Member
John_Vaughan
39
By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London
by Adrian Tinniswood
344 members
8 reviews
3.9
Member
John_Vaughan
40
The Faber Book of London
by A. N. Wilson
71 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
John_Vaughan
41
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
by Samuel Pepys
673 members
8 reviews
4.1
Member
John_Vaughan
42
London River: The Thames Story
by Gavin Weightman
27 members
1 review
3
Member
John_Vaughan
43
Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason
by Jessica Warner
244 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
John_Vaughan