Erik Larson


Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Thunderstruck
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Leonard Susskind

The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
An Introduction To Black Holes, Information and The String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe – Leonard Susskind & James Lindesay
The Theoretical Minimum – Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky
Quantum Mechanics (The Theoretical Minimum) – Leonard Susskind & Art Friedman

Stephen Baxter


The Time Ships
Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice
The Massacre of Mankind: Sequel to The War of the Worlds
Galaxias
The Thousand Earths

Xeelee Sequence
Xeelee An Omnibus
Raft
Timelike Infinity
Flux
Ring

NASA Trilogy
Voyage
Titan
Moonseed

Manifold Trilogy
Manifold: Time
Manifold: Space
Manifold: Origin

Time’s Tapestry
Emperor
Conqueror
Navigator
Weaver

Proxima / Ultima
Proxima
Ultima

World Engines
World Engines: Destroyer
World Engines: Creator
A Time Odyssey
Time’s Eye (Time Odyssey Book 1) – Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
Sunstorm – Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
Firstborn – Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
The Long Earth
The Long Earth – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The Long War – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The Long Mars – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The Long Utopia – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The Long Cosmos – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter

Maritime History


Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time – Dava Sobel
Frigate Commander – Tom Wareham
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette – Hampton Sides
The Pirate Wars – Peter Earle
The Civil War at Sea – Craig L. Symonds
In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine – Rachel Lance
War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II – Nathan Miller
Hellcats of the Sea: Operation Barney and the Mission to the Sea of Japan – Charles A. Lockwood & Hans C. Adamson
The Vikings: A History – Robert Ferguson
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania – Erik Larson

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