Most Popular Non-fiction Books of the 2010s

The Art of the Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien

Non-fiction

November 27, 2011

A Middle-earth Traveller

John Howe

Middle-earth · Non-fiction

October 2, 2018

Power Writing: Make Your Genre Fiction Soar

Karen Azinger

Non-fiction

November 2016

Tales of the Vuduri #3

Tales of the Vuduri: Year Three

Michael Brachman

Science Fiction · Hard Science Fiction · Space Opera · Non-fiction

January 2016

The Art of Stephen Hickman

Stephen Hickman

Non-fiction

November 3, 2015

I, Robert

Robert Rankin

Biography · Non-fiction

2015

Tales of the Vuduri #2

Tales of the Vuduri: Year Two

Michael Brachman

Science Fiction · Hard Science Fiction · Space Opera · Non-fiction

January 11, 2015

The Wheel of Time

The Wheel of Time Companion

Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons

Non-fiction

October 29, 2015

Tales of the Vuduri #1

Tales of the Vuduri: Year One

Michael Brachman

Science Fiction · Hard Science Fiction · Space Opera · Non-fiction

January 2014

Rocket Science: Science Fiction and Non-Fiction

Ian Sales

Science Fiction · Anthology · Non-fiction

2012

Hardware: The Definitive SF Works of Chris Foss

Chris Foss

Non-fiction

July 2011

I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft

S. T. Joshi

Non-fiction

2010

A Song of Ice and Fire (related works)

The World of Ice and Fire

George R. R. Martin, Elio M. García, Jr., Linda Antonsson

Non-fiction

October 22, 2014

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Stephen Hawking

Natural Sciences · Non-fiction

October 16, 2018

Occult Detective Magazine #1

Occult Detective Quarterly #1

John Linwood Grant, Sam Gafford

Horror · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Short Stories · Mystery

2016

A Brief History of The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff

Fantasy · Middle-earth · Non-fiction

January 2015

Honorverse

House of Steel: The Honorverse Companion

David Weber

Science Fiction · Non-fiction

April 24, 2014

Discworld Reference

Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion ...So Far

Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs

Non-fiction

November 2012

The Grand Design

Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

Natural Sciences · Non-fiction

2010

The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien, Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull

Non-fiction

2015

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

The Demigod Diaries

Rick Riordan

Fantasy · Young Adult · Short Stories · Non-fiction

2012

House of Night

The Fledgling Handbook 101

P. C. Cast, Kim Doner

Fantasy · Paranormal Romance · Vampires · Young Adult · Non-fiction

October 19, 2010

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth

Catherine McIlwaine

Non-fiction

July 2018

A Slip of the Keyboard

Terry Pratchett

Non-fiction

September 2014

The Science of Discworld #4

Judgement Day

Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen, Ian Stewart

Fantasy · Non-fiction

April 8, 2013

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-fiction

Neil Gaiman

Non-fiction

May 31, 2016

The Southern Vampire Mysteries

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion

Charlaine Harris

Non-fiction

August 25, 2011

Occult Detective Magazine #4

Occult Detective Quarterly #4

John Linwood Grant, Dave Brzeski

Horror · Occult Detective · Anthology · Short Stories · Mystery

2018

Stock Market Investing for Beginners

Mark Atwood

Non-fiction

November 9, 2017

Discworld Reference

Mrs. Bradshaw's Handbook

Terry Pratchett

Non-fiction

October 6, 2014

Mary Shelley

Muriel Spark

Biography · Non-fiction

April 2013

Dragonwriter : A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern

Todd McCaffrey

Non-fiction

August 6, 2013

The Hero

Lee Child

Short Stories · Non-fiction

November 26, 2019

Modern Masters of Science Fiction

Iain M. Banks

Paul Kincaid

Biography · Non-fiction

May 12, 2017

The Battles of Tolkien

David Day

Middle-earth · Non-fiction

October 2016

Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution

Ann VanderMeer

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Anthology · Non-fiction

2012