English non-fiction literature: Trending topics

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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Oxford English Dictionary	5,512
2	On the Origin of Species	3,222
3	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	1,119
4	Foxe's Book of Martyrs	499
5	Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution	226
6	Micrographia	216
7	Cider with Rosie	187
8	The Second World War (book)	162
9	Opticks	159
10	A History of the English-Speaking Peoples	147
11	The Gospel of Filth	135
12	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations	107
13	Wordless Book	103
14	Characters of Shakespear's Plays	88
15	Defence of the Seven Sacraments	68
16	Fertilisation of Orchids	68
17	Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells	59
18	Man's Place in Nature	58
19	London Labour and the London Poor	56
20	Revelations of Divine Love	56
21	Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets	52
22	As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning	45
23	The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765)	45
24	The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs	44
25	The Malay Archipelago	42
26	Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni	42
27	The Story of the Malakand Field Force	38
28	The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication	33
29	Brief Lives	32
30	Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?	32
31	London to Ladysmith via Pretoria	29
32	The Compleat Housewife	28
33	Tales from the Expat Harem	26
34	Dialogus de Scaccario	25
35	Celsius 7/7	25
36	Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon	25
37	A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain	23
38	De Doctrina Christiana (Milton)	22
39	Loimologia	21
40	Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence	19
41	Lord Randolph Churchill (book)	19
42	The Spanish Labyrinth	19
43	The Universe Around Us	19
44	Joseph Priestley and education	17
45	Dictionary of Insulting Quotations	16
46	Marlborough: His Life and Times	15
47	An Oxford University Chest	13
48	The Parson's Handbook	12
49	South from Granada (book)	12
50	The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648–1815	12
51	China's Spiritual Need and Claims	11
52	The Shining Levels	11
53	Ian Hamilton's March	10
54	Daedalus; or, Science and the Future	9
55	A Moment of War	8
56	Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?: Volume Two	6
57	The Dairyman's Daughter	less than 5 views
58	Constitutio domus regis	less than 5 views
59	Exposition of the Creed	less than 5 views
60	Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew	less than 5 views