Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Funniest Joke Book | 1983 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 2 | Bogeys, Boils And Bellybuttons | 1986 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 3 | Save Our Planet | 1987 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 4 | Holidays Survival Guide | 1989 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 5 | The Complete How to Handle Grown-ups | 1991 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 6 | Completely Misleading Guide to School | 1994 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 7 | What Grown-Ups Say and What They Really Mean | 1994 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 8 | Even More Ways to Handle Grown-ups | 1996 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 9 | Warriors! True Stories Of Combat, Skill And Courage | 2001 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 10 | A Canny History of Carlisle | 2006 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 11 | Standing Alone | 2011 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 12 | London Stories | 2012 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 13 | Charles Dickens | 2012 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 14 | Alan Turing | 2013 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 15 | Stories of the First World War | 2014 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
| 16 | Independence. War in Ireland | 2017 | Jim Eldridge | Buy |
Jim Eldridge’s non-fiction output is as varied as his fiction. Early works like The Funniest Joke Book (1983) and Bogeys, Boils And Bellybuttons (1986) targeted young readers with humor, while later titles took on more serious subjects including biographies of Charles Dickens (2012) and Alan Turing (2013).
His historical non-fiction includes A Canny History of Carlisle (2006) and works about World War I, demonstrating the depth of historical knowledge that also informs his fiction writing.