Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
U is for Undertow
Sue Grafton
Tishomingo blues
Elmore Leonard
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