- Art & Architecture books such as those by Thames & Hudson, White Star, Taschen, and Konnemann.
- Images from NASA's various missions as typified by The Home Planet, Orbit, & Entering Space.
- Anything which helps explain and popularise science such as those by Feynman, Sagan, etc.
- Anything which helps expose charlatans and fraudsters such as those by Randi, Gardner, etc.
- Djuna Barnes
- C. J. Cherryh
- Samuel Delany
- Lawrence Durrell
- E. R. Eddison
- H. R. Haggard
- M. John Harrison
- Tanith Lee
- Patricia McKillip
- Michael Moorcock
- Roger Zelazny
