Joseph Kanon - The Good German
It deals with events that occured in Berlin shortly after WWII.
So I can't recommend it to you, unless you are interested in the time or the place.....
And I just finished a book called "A Short History Of Nearly Everything"
by an american writer called Bill Bryson.
He writes about the creation of the universe, the earth, life itself and
almost everything that matters in a funny way, with lots of anecdotes,
mostly about those scientists that came in second place.