- Further Programming for the ZX Spectrum by Ian Stewart, Robin Jones
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
- Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
- Possibly: Children of Men by P.D. James (too early to say)