Hard Times
Charles Dickens
A Storm of Swords
George R. R. Martin
The Way of Shadows
Brent Weeks
The Book Theif
Markus Zusak
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot
The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Mary Roach
The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the ...
Brian Greene
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of ...
Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner
The origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The ...
Charles Darwin
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Douglas Adams; Mark Carwardine
A short history of nearly everything
Bill Bryson