Before modification by Sports_Gambler at 25/06/2017 08:38:44 AM
Fiction:
A couple of sci-fi ones by a favourite author of mine, Kim Stanley Robinson:
'2312' (older classic - mystery-thriller set in our solar system) and
'Aurora' (more recent work tackling interstellar travel and colonization of new planets).
Non-Fiction
'How To Create a Mind' (Ray Kurzweil, Cognitive Science)
'Fooled by Randomness' and 'Black Swan' (2 classics on prediction and forecasting by Nassim Nicolas Taleb)
'Superforecasting' (highly cited classic on what makes a genius forecaster, by Philip Tetlock)
'Outliers' and 'Blink' (2 psychology classics on genius and intuition, respectively, by Malcom Gladwell)
'Thinking Fast and Slow' (highly influential psychology classic on the 2 main thinking styles, by Daniel Kahneman)
'From Bacteria To Bach and Back' (magnum opus by Dan Dennett, about the biological origins of consciousness)
'Sapiens' and 'Homo Deus' (recent much-talked about books on the history and future of humanity, respectively, by Yuval Noah Harari)
'Other Minds' (interesting marine- biology book on intelligence and consciousness in the Octopus, by Peter-Godfrey Smith)
'Time reborn' (popular physics - argues for the fundamental reality of time, by Lee Smolin)
Lots to get through