Anthony Gottlieb's brilliant The Dream of Reason, and The Dream of Enlightenment; Sean Carroll's equally, if not more, brilliant From Eternity to Here.... Any or all of them will leave one in awe. Cheers, Filip
My preference is classic literature, and I find "Vanity Fair" (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray quite interesting keeping the present culture of influencers and their hunt for fame and so on in mind. Also Thackeray, "The Virginians" (1859) could be se...
Sadly, I have to read the English translations thus I will never know the original works, but the translations are indeed pleasant reading. Would also recommend the translations of a.o. Turgenev, Chekhov and Tolstoy by Garnett for those who prefer (or hav...