Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Passage, Port and Plantation: A History of Solomon Islands Labour Migration, 1870-1914 | 1973 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 2 | Lightning Meets the West Wind: The Malaita Massacre | 1980 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 3 | The National Times Australian Book of Quizzes | 1983 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 4 | Fred Hollows: An Autobiography | 1992 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 5 | Ray Barrett: An Autobiography | 1995 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 6 | A Round of Golf: 18 Holes with Peter Corris | 1998 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 7 | The Journal of Fletcher Christian: Together with the History of Henry Corkill | 2005 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 8 | Mad Dog: William Cyril Moxley and the Moorebank Killings | 2011 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 9 | Damned If I Do | 2013 | Peter Corris | Buy |
Peter Corris started as an academic historian before he became a novelist, and his non-fiction reflects that background. His first book, Passage, Port and Plantation (1973), grew out of his PhD research on Solomon Islands labor migration. Lightning Meets the West Wind followed in 1980, covering the Malaita Massacre. These early works are serious historical scholarship.
His later non-fiction shifted toward biography and true crime. He collaborated with eye surgeon Fred Hollows and actor Ray Barrett on their autobiographies, and wrote Mad Dog about the Moorebank killings. His memoir Damned If I Do (2013) covers his life as a writer with the blunt honesty readers would expect from the creator of Cliff Hardy.