Good Reads
Sci-Fi:
The Expanse (series) by James S. A. Corey
Red Mars (series) by Kim Stanley Robinson
Safehold (series) by David Weber
Manifold (seriers) by Stephen Baxter
Enders Prequels (series) (I honestly like these better than the later Ender books)
Rendezvous with Rama: Arthur C Clarke
When Worlds Collide by Phillip Wylie and Edwin Balmer
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
Powersat by Ben Bova
Fear in The Sky, Book 1, by Stephen Moss
A long time until now by Michael Z. Williamson
Biographies
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
This Fight is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren
Non-Fiction
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Adrian Goldsworthy
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Pääbo
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration by Michio Kaku
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
Life’s Ratchet by Peter M. Hoffman
Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates Itself by James A. Davies
1491 by Charles C. Mann
How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil
Ghenghis Kan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
Venice by Prof Thomas F. Madden
Sea Power by Admiral James Stravirdis
Drinking Water by James Salzman
Classics
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Great Courses
Foundations of Western Civilization
The Story of Human Language
The Rise and Fall of China