I try to read a lot of books. Here are some that I've read, roughly in the past year, that I'd recommend without hesitation:
- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
- Borders of Infinity - Lois McMaster Bujold
- Chip War - Chris Miller
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life - William Finnegan
- A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
- Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
- A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations - Dan Fleisch
- The Fall - Albert Camus
- The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
- Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll
- Fortune's Formula - William Poundstone
- Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Neal Stephenson
- Wireless Wars - Jonathan Pelson
- All the Birds in the Sky - Charlie Jane Anders
- The Art of Language Invention - David Peterson
- Daemon - Daniel Suarez
- Freedom - Daniel Suarez
- The Pugilist at Rest - Thom Jones
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
- Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge
- Pandora's Star - Peter Hamilton
- Siddartha - Hermann Hesse
- When Genius Failed - Roger Lowenstein
- A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge