| The World Set Free | by H. G. Wells |
| Japan's Longest Day | by ???? |
| Thread of the Silkworm | by Iris Chang |
| The Blind Watchmaker | by Richard Dawkins |
| Questioning the Millennium : A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown | by Stephen Jay Gould |
| The Mismeasure of Man | by Stephen Jay Gould |
| Full House | by Stephen Jay Gould |
| The Existential Pleasures of Engineering | by Samuel C. Florman |
| Engineering in History | by Richard Shelton Kirby, Sidney Withington, Arthur Burr Darling, and Frederick Gridley Kilgour |
| Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality | by John Gribbin |
| Contact | by Carl Sagan |
| Billions and Billions | by Carl Sagan |
| Confrontations with the Reaper | by Fred Feldman |
| Dark Sun : The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb | by Richard Rhodes |
| Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II | by Peter Williams and David Wallace |
| Godel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid | by Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | by Thomas S. Kuhn |
| His Name is Ron: Our Search for Justice | by the Goldman Family |
| Letters From a Nut | by Ted L. Nancy |
| Into The Wild | by Jon Krakauer |
| Iron John | by Robert Bly |
| lots of different books | by Cliff Pickover |
| Birdy | by William Wharton |
| Why I am Not Christian | by Bertrand Russel |
| Deadly Feasts | by Richard Rhodes |
| Mandatory Motherhood: The True Meaning of Right to Life | by Garrett Hardin |
| Chance and Chaos | by David Ruelle |
| The Cuckoo's Egg | by Cliff Stoll |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | by Anne Frank |
| Studies of War | by Baron Blackett & Patrick Maynard Stuart |
| Keeping Watch, A History of American Time | by Michael O'Malley |
| "Nov 18, 1883: The Day That Noon Showed Up on Time", Smithsonian magazine, Nov 1983, pp. 193-208 | by William H. Earle |
| "Standard & Daylight-saving Time", Scientific American, May 1979 (Vol. 240, No. 5), pp. 46-53 | by Ian R. Bartky & Elizabeth Harrison |
| Inventing Standard Time (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1983) | by Carlene E. Stephens |