Nonfiction

• The Road to Reality, Roger Penrose

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• Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom
• Behave, Robert Sapolsky
• The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb
• Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
• Build, Tony Fadell
• Scale, Geoffrey West
• Where is My Flying Car?, J. Storris Hall

Philosophy & Psychology

• Neither Ghost Nor Machine, Jeremy Sherman
• Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, René Girard
• The Creative Act, Rick Rubin
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
• The Character of Consciousness, David Chalmers
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter
• The Beginning of Infinity, David Deustch
• The Timeless Way of Building, Christopher Alexander
• Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows
• Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Man and His Symbols, Carl Jung

Science Fiction

• Contact, Carl Sagan
• Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu
• The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
• Bloodchild, Octavia Butler
• Exhalation, Ted Chiang
• Borne, Jeff Vandermeer
• Dead Astronauts, Jeff Vandermeer
• Hyperion, Dan Simmons
• Diaspora, Greg Egan
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick

Systems and Design

• Programming Massively Parallel Processors
• Systems Performance, Brendan Gregg
• Database Internals, Alex Petrov
• Designing Data Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann
• Design Patterns
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, W. Richard Stevens
• The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks

Programming

• A Tour of C++ (Second Edition), Bjarne Stroustrup
• Effective C++ (Third Edition), Scott Meyers
• Effective Modern C++, Scott Meyers
• C++ Move Semantics: The Complete Guide, Nicolai Josuttis
• C++ Templates, David Vandevoorde and Nicolai Josuttis

Other

• Uzumaki, Junji Ito
• Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
• No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy