The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark
Carl Sagan
Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian
Violets Are Blue
James Patterson
The tale of the body thief
Anne Rice
Inversions
Iain M. Banks
Transition
Children of the Mind
Orson Scott Card
Count Zero
William Gibson
Zero History
Spook Country
The Difference Engine
William Gibson;Bruce Sterling
The Scar
China Miéville
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson