The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
The Wide Window: Or, Disappearance!
Lemony A. Snicket
Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
Jared M. Diamond
The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark
Carl Sagan
A short history of nearly everything
Bill Bryson
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche