Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everything I Know About Love | 2018 | Dolly Alderton | Buy |
| 2 | Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom | 2022 | Dolly Alderton | Buy |
Dolly Alderton’s non-fiction work consists of two books that reflect different stages of her career. Everything I Know About Love (2018) is a memoir about her twenties, covering friendships, bad dates, heartbreak, heavy drinking, and the slow process of figuring out what matters. The book was a word-of-mouth hit that spent months on bestseller lists and was later adapted into a BBC television series. Alderton’s writing style is confessional and funny, with a willingness to describe embarrassing moments that gives the memoir a sense of honesty.
Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom (2022) gathers advice columns that Alderton wrote for The Sunday Times Style magazine. Readers wrote in with questions about relationships, loneliness, career anxiety, and family conflict, and Alderton’s responses draw on her own experience without pretending to have all the answers. The book works as a looser, more conversational follow-up to the memoir, organized by topic rather than chronology.