Welcome to Hard Times
E.L. Doctorow
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt
The cement garden
Ian McEwan
Postwar
Made in America Display Piece
Bill Bryson
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Simon Schama
A Briefer History of Time
Stephen W. Hawking
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman & Andrew Postman
Armageddon In Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut