Everything and More, by David Foster Wallace (history of inifinity) Lord of Light, by Zelazny (fiction, but transcendent) The Trial of Socrates, by I.F. Stone

Everything and More, by David Foster Wallace (history of inifinity) Lord of Light, by Zelazny (fiction, but transcendent) The Trial of Socrates, by I.F. Stone (makes the case that Socrates was a genuine threat to his society) Any book by Ryszard Kapuscinski The Histories, by Herodotus To Engineer is Human, by Petroski A History of Knowledge, by Charles Van Doren