Excession – Iain M. Banks
Banks’ fifth novel in the series attempts to explore… well, i honestly have no idea.
The Culture
The State of the Art – Iain M. Banks
A short story collection with one novella from the Culture series
Use of Weapons – Iain M. Banks
The third Culture Novel, wherein the weapon is a not particularly nice person.
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
Second Culture novel was as good as the first
Consider Phlebas – Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas is the first Culture novel. It seems pretty light on Culture.
Failures in Polymathy 