A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose
Leigh Cowart
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, ...
Eric Schlosser
A Briefer History of Time
Leonard Mlodinow & Stephen Hawking
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield