But I was too lazy to write. Arranged in order of increasing reading difficulty.
Troublemaker - Sergei Lukyanenko
Pure, unadulterated pulp fiction, the rapture of his fans baffles me. The jokes are funny for those in the know about the author's political views, and events in the world and on the internet. For me, they're funny. What I don't like are those very views of the author, who is an imperialist, a jingoist, a copyright fanatic, and suffers from Orthodoxy of the brain.
About cats, dogs, and other pets. Not all that interesting, what I mainly liked were the descriptions of how other animals lived with the author (a famous biologist, as I understand it) — a badger, geese, and others.
Kjell A. Nordstrom Jonas Ridderstrale - Funky Business. Talent Makes Capital Dance
It’s about how doing business in the modern world should be fun, talented, and slightly crazy. Trying it on for size doesn't work — we're outsourcers from a depressed region, while the authors are talking about some smart and rich people. But it's an interesting read.
David Wann Thomas H. Naylor John de Graaf - Affluenza. The Disease Threatening the World
It's about the immoderate and unnecessary consumption of resources by society and its members. Tons of examples are given (mostly relevant to the US, not Russia and Latvia). There are no revelations for someone in the know, and the book is written in the usual American fashion, like a piece of propaganda, but it's an amusing read. For those who know nothing about this point of view, or know little, it will be interesting.
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel
A hefty and famous work on geographical determinism, meaning that peoples and civilizations developed the way they did because of their location on the continents, and the presence of certain conditions on those continents, mainly domesticates (domesticated species of animals and plants). Informative, hard to read, but tolerable. A fair amount of interesting and fun facts. The author, by the way, is Western, but in the book he absolutely doesn't deny the brutal nature of Europeans in the old days, and instead gives a fair amount of examples of the mass extermination of all sorts of Indians and natives by military and other means.
As a second opinion, you should read Kirill Eskov's penciled notes
A book about the problems of modern theoretical physics, and its, in a way, stagnation. It's about how a fundamental field theory isn't even looming on the horizon right now, if you approach it from the standpoint of rigorous science, and there hasn't been any progress for decades. String theory, according to the author, has a lot of questionable parts that prevent it from being a candidate for now. Very hard to read, often completely incomprehensible, but very interesting. If you have even the slightest idea about modern particle and field physics, you'll manage it, and if you don't, you'll get one, because the author explains things from scratch in places.