Some of my favorite books in no particular order.
Fun Books
Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet
David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest
James P. Carse Finite and Infinite Games
Douglas Hofstadter I Am a Strange Loop
Robert Persig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Mark Manson Models
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
Isaac Asimov The Foundation series
Neal Stephenson Snow Crash
Henry David Thoreu Walden
Charlie Awberry Opening Awareness
D.E. Harding On Having No Head
“Serious” Books
David Deutsch The Beginning of Infinity
Thomas S. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Bruce Tift Already Free
Nassim Taleb Fooled by Randomness
Henry Hazlitt Economics in One Lesson
Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene
C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity
Luke Burgis Wanting
Cal Newport Deep Work
Peter Thiel Zero to One
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friend and Influence People
Friedrich Nietzche Beyond Good and Evil
Inspired by Patrick Collison’s blog.