1.       John Le Carre appetizer:   Smiley’s People

2.       Cool Scientific autobiographies http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dancing-Naked-Mind-Field-Mullis/dp/0679774009/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1248760727&sr=1-2   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Surely-Youre-Joking-Mr-Feynman-Adventures/dp/009917331X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248760811&sr=8-1

3.       Adventures in Physics  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dancing-Wu-Li-Masters-Overview/dp/0712648720/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248760871&sr=8-1

4.       Cool travel writing http://www.amazon.co.uk/Holy-Mountain-Journey-Shadow-Byzantium/dp/0006547745/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248760912&sr=8-1

5.       History of AIDS http://www.amazon.co.uk/River-Journey-Source-Penguin-Science/dp/0140283773/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248760984&sr=1-4

6.       Great American trivia: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Made-America-Bill-Bryson/dp/0552998052/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248761062&sr=1-1

7.       Linguistics: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/qid=1248761105/ref=a9_sc_1?ie=UTF8&search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=steven%20pinker  - “The Language instinct” or” how the mind works” are great to begin with http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mother-Tongue-Language-Bill-Bryson/dp/014014305X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248761224&sr=1-1

8.       Revisionist History: http://www.troy-in-england.co.uk/where-troy-once-stood/where-troy-once-stood.htm

9.       Great conspiracy theory that Dan Brown “borrowed” for The “Davinci Code” http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Blood-Grail/dp/0099503093/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248761519&sr=1-1

10.    Genetics: http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Watchmaker-Evidence-Evolution-Universe/dp/0393315703/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248761582&sr=1-3  

11.   Matt Ridley rocks!  “The Red Queen”,  “ On the origins of Virtue” and “ Genome” are cracking good books http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b_0_6?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=matt+ridley&sprefix=Matt+r

12.   In a class of its own: http://www.amazon.com/Acid-Dreams-Complete-History-Sixties/dp/0802130623/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248761913&sr=1-1

13.   The king and creator of Cyberpunk http://www.amazon.com/reader/0553281747?%5Fencoding=UTF8&ref%5F=sib%5Faps%5Fsup&qid=1248761981&page=random#reader

14.   Phillip K Dick – you know this as “Blade Runner” http://www.amazon.com/Do-Androids-Dream-Electric-Sheep/dp/1570420521/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1248762193&sr=8-6

15.   This should be the last thing EVERYONE reads before embarking on adult life: http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Co-Operation-Penguin-Press-Science/dp/0140124950/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248762561&sr=8-1

16.   Modern History: http://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-Iraq/dp/B001E96KKK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248762915&sr=1-1

17.   Food: http://www.amazon.com/Anthony-Bourdain-Omnibus-Kitchen-Confidential/dp/0747574987/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248763088&sr=1-2

18.   Funny contemporary English ranting: http://www.amazon.com/World-According-Clarkson-Jeremy/dp/B001NXUQHU/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248763352&sr=1-4

19.   The Bible: http://www.amazon.com/Tcp-Ip-Complete-Ed-Taylor/dp/0070634009/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248763469&sr=1-1

20.   My favourite American novelist: http://www.amazon.com/Slapstick-Lonesome-No-More-Novel/dp/0385334230/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248763521&sr=1-10

And NO - I am not getting paid by Amazon!