Books That Gratify One's Intellectual Curiosity?
aristus: Everything and More, by David Foster Wallace (history of inifinity)Lord of Light, by Zelazny (fiction, but transcendent)The Trial of Socrates, by I.F. Stone (makes the case that Socrates was a genuine threat to his society)Any book by Ryszard KapuscinskiThe Histories, by HerodotusTo Engineer is Human, by PetroskiA History of Knowledge, by Charles Van Doren