Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe; Virginia Woolf
The Surgeon's Mate
Patrick O'Brian
The City & The City
China Miéville
Transition
Iain M. Banks
The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark
Carl Sagan
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A short history of nearly everything
Bill Bryson