Candide, or, Optimism
Voltaire
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
The Monastery
Sir Walter Scott
At the Mountains of Madness
H. P. Lovecraft
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre (1)
A short history of nearly everything
Bill Bryson
The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark
Carl Sagan
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche