I am so happy that A Brief History of Time did not make the list. I tried to read it several times and never made it through, because he glosses over so many things, never providing sufficient reasoning.

I highly recommend The Age of Entanglement, one of the best general audience books on quantum physics! Quite a page turner!

I read A Brief History of Time during high school, and I thought it was great. Perhaps if I had been more knowledgeable in the topic (I was only familiar with classic physics at that point) when I read it, I might have felt otherwise. But I would say it serves the general audience superbly.

gorilla arms http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html

I am totally up for eating insects. I've had them before in Korea. I wish there were a place to get them in the US.