Only things I strongly recommend
Fiction Books
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Nonfiction Books
- Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
- Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
- The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
- The True History of the American Revolution by Sydney Fisher
- The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan
- 1491 by Charels C. Mann
Textbooks
- Understanding Analysis by Stephen Abbott
- Introduction to Linear Algebra by Gilbert Strang
- Calculus by James Stewart