The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
H.M.S. Surprise
Patrick O'Brian
The Algebraist
Iain M. Banks
Look to Windward
Transition
Flashforward
Robert J. Sawyer
Use of Weapons
The Player of Games
Consider Phlebas
Matter
Dune
Frank Herbert
Burning Chrome
William Gibson
The ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Douglas Adams
Childhood's end
Arthur C. Clarke
Contact
Carl Sagan
The demolished man
Alfred Bester
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Magician, apprentice
Raymond E. Feist