1. **A Short History of Nearly Everything** by _Bill Bryson_
2. **What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions** by _Randall Munroe_
3. **"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character** by _RIchard Feynman_
4. **The Beginning of Infinity** by _David Deutsch_
5. **The Drunkard's Walk** by _Leonard Mlodinow_
6. **Future Shock** by _Alvin (and Heidi) Toffler_
7. **Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid** by _Douglas Hofstadter_
8. **Physics of the Impossible** by _Michio Kaku_