CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
MISCELLANEOUS

Ponderous Wonderous Confusing Amusing Booklist

There's no greater source of miscellanous stuff than the "Uncle John" series of books
It's like the Reader's Digest with article lengths designed specifically for your attention span in everyone's favorite reading room (in this case, "attention span" equals "the time it takes for your legs to go to sleep in a sitting position"). Every subject fron every age. A true random walk throught humanity and its' history. Each volume is another cabinet of curiosities.