Some books I've read that I found to be good reads:
- Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra Through Applications to Computer Science by Philip N. Klein
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd edition) by Peter Norvig and Stuart J. Russell
- Feynman Lectures On Gravitation by Richard Feynman
- Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
- The Vital Question by Nick Lane
- Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts, Bruce, Heald, Rebecca, Johnson, Alexander, Morgan, David, Raff, Martin, Roberts, Keith, Walter, Peter
- Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charlie Munger
- The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life by Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff
- A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming by Paul N. Edwards
- Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 3rd Edition by Mark F. Bear, Barry W. Connors and Michael A. Paradiso
- A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History) by Alexander J. Field
- Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik
- Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard W. Hamming
- Anthropic Bias by Nick Bostrom
- Blindsight by Peter Watts
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up by K. C. Kole
- The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart J. Russell
- If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Stephen Webb
- Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
- The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion by Sean Carroll
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
- The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
- Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) by Aaron Courville, Ian Goodfellow, and Yoshua Bengio
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
- The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose