Before the Dawn, The Road, and Death by Black Hole. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'm very, very sorry it took so long to post this. I accidentally sent it to my home (which I'm not currently at due to my last semester of college) and FINALLY got my mom to email me pictures of what it was. These books all seem absolutely fantastic and up my alley. My book buddy clearly did some great research--I look forward to reading all of these when I go him this summer.