I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A Brief History of Intelligence — Max Bennett

A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess

Beyond the Aquila Rift — Alastair Reynolds

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays — Stephen Hawking

BOOM: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation — Hobart and Huber

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick

Educated — Tara Westover

Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury

Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes

Foundation (series) — Issac Asimov

Hyperion — Dan Simmons

Human, all too Human — Friedrich Nietzsche

I, Robot (series) — Issac Asimov

Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov

Man A Machine — Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Man's Search for Meaning — Victor Frankl

Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka

On Work — Derek Thompson

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Richard Feynman

Tau Zero — Poul Anderson

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering — Richard Hamming

The Changing World Order — Ray Dalio

The Creative Act — Rick Rubin

The Order of Time — Carlo Rovelli

The Real World of Technology — Ursula Franklin

The Repairer of Reputations — Robert W. Chambers

The State of the Art — Iain M. Banks

The Time Machine — H.G. Wells

The Trial — Franz Kafka

The World Behind the World — Erik Hoel

Think Again — Adam Grant

Thinking in Systems — Donella H. Meadows

Why Nations Fail — Daron Acemoglu

1984 — George Orwell