The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Jon Gertner
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Philip K. Dick
The Ionian Mission
Patrick O'Brian
Walden, or, Life in the woods: and, "On the duty of civil disobedience"
Henry David Thoreau
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Basic writings of Nietzsche