[Eric]

It struck me just now that the great majority of books discussed here, and on other British and American book threads are novels. It is almost as if the expression "reading a book" is synonymous with "reading a novel".

There are a small number of threads here covering poetry, short-stories, biographies, and so on. But very little on non-fictional topics. Not only here, where the word "literature" is much in evidence, but on other book sites, such as the defunct BBC one and Big Readers.

Do people here read whole books (as opposed to looking up details on Google) about a wide range of non-literary subjects? Some categories are close to literature, such as the biographies of authors, literary theory and criticism. But there is a vast number of non-fictional topics from guides to Provence to books that explain viticulture or bee-keeping, books on French painting, violin-playing or -making, petit-point, American architecture, languages for learning & linguistics, the sciences, religion & spirituality, economics & finance, sports of many kinds, stamp collectiing, rock climbing, modern sculpture, Scandinavian films, etc., etc., etc.

How often to any of the rest of you read non-fictional books, and on what subjects?