I’m an avid reader of books (and listener to audiobooks). Below is a very small and incomplete selection of some of my favorites. Some of the opinions here might also be somewhat outdated.
Anathem by Neal Stephenson The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn The Swarm by Frank Schäzing Dune by Frank Herbert Echopraxia by Peter Watts
Humankind by Rutger Bregman Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander
* Kalevala / by Elias Lönnrot
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky Ra by qntm Blindsight by Peter Watts After Life by Simon Funk