brittsaqt suggested a required reading list. So here goes (in no particular order) with Amazon links:

• A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
• Illiad and Odyssey – Homer
• A Brief History In Time – Stephen Hawking
• The Elegant Univese – Brian Greene
• The Dream of Reason – Anthony Gottlieb
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel
• Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks
• Essential Uncanny X-Men (multiple volumes)
• Essential Wolverine
• NEWSWEEK Magazine

If you think this was a little short, then you are certainly correct. I weeded the list down from 23 to 10.