Here are some books that have impacted my world view.
Science Fiction
- A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
- Three Body Problem and Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
- Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez
- Cryptonomicon and Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
- Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
Non-Fiction
- Chip War by Chris Miller
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
- When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
Life & Philosophy
- Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Book by Alan Watts
- Not Fade Away by Peter Barton
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Stranger by Albert Camus