The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Thomas Ricks
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Violets Are Blue
James Patterson
A short history of nearly everything
Bill Bryson
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark
Carl Sagan