I'll add descriptions and reviews later, this is just what I've read recently — no endorsements!
The History of the Ancient World — Susan Wise Bauer
The History of the Medieval World — Susan Wise Bauer
The History of the Renaissance World — Susan Wise Bauer
The Inheritance of Rome — Chris Wickham
Freedom's Forge — Arthur Herman
1776 — David McCullough
The Box — Marc Levinson
The Prize — Daniel Yergin
Jesus, Interrupted — Bart D. Ehrman
Jesus Before the Gospels — Bart D. Ehrman
Misquoting Jesus — Bart D. Ehrman
Forged — Bart D. Ehrman
White Trash — Nancy Isenberg
Longitude — Dava Sobel
Atomic Awakening — James Mahaffey
Human Smoke — Nicholson Baker
Conscious — Annaka Harris
A Thousand Brains — Jeff Hawkins
Let There Be Water — Seth M. Siegel
Liftoff — Eric Berger
I Am a Strange Loop — Douglas R. Hofstadter
Being You — Anil Seth
The Perfectionists — Simon Winchester
Energy and Civilization — Vaclav Smil
How the World Really Works — Vaclav Smil
The Secret Life of Groceries — Benjamin Lorr
The Big Short — Michael Lewis
Capital of the 21st Century — Thomas Piketty
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money — John Maynard Keynes
Strong Towns — Charles L. Marohn Jr.
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer — Charles L. Marohn Jr.
Two Wheels Good — Jody Rosen
Guns, Germs and Steel — Jared Diamond
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes
The Master and His Emissary — Iain McGilchrist
Warriors and Worriers — Joyce F. Benenson
Human Diversity — Charles Murray
The War on Normal People — Andrew Yang
Shortest Way Home — Pete Buttigieg
Bullshit Jobs — David Graeber
Why Nations Fail — James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu
The Narrow Corridor — James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu
Poor Economics — Abhijit Banerjee, Ester Duflo
One Billion Americans — Matthew Yglesias
Woke Racism — John McWhorter
The Machiavellians — James Burnham
Seeing Like a State — James C. Scott
The White Pill — Michael Malice
Becoming Trader Joe — Joe Coulomb
A Promised Land — Barack Obama
Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charles T. Munger
Three Body Problem (trilogy) — Cixin Liu
Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang
Exhalation — Ted Chiang
Dune — Frank Herbert
Foundation (series) — Isaac Asimov
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin
Consider Phlebas — Iain M. Banks
Player of Games — Iain M. Banks
Matter — Iain M. Banks
The Use of Weapons — Iain M. Banks
Hyperion — Dan Simmons
The Fall of Hyperion — Dan Simmons
Ecotopia — Malcolm Margolin
Accelerando — Charles Stross
Too Like the Lightning — Ada Palmer
Seven Surrenders — Ada Palmer
Seveneves — Neal Stephenson
Blindsight — Peter Watts
Echopraxia — Peter Watts
Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
Delta-V — Daniel Suarez
Critical Mass — Daniel Suarez
For lack of a better category name, more classic literature
One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Stranger — Albert Camus
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert M. Pirsig
Fight Club — Chuck Palahniuk