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 'Thinking Fast and Slow' (highly influential psychology classics on the nature of genius and 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