Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Inside Steve's Brain
Leander Kahney
Napalm and Silly Putty
George Carlin
A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years
Gregory Maguire
Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
Jared M. Diamond
Return of the primitive: the anti-industrial revolution
Ayn Rand; Peter Schwartz