Books

I'll add descriptions and reviews later, this is just what I've read recently — no endorsements!

Non-fiction

History

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

Finance / Economics

The Big Short — Michael Lewis

Capital of the 21st Century — Thomas Piketty

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money — John Maynard Keynes

Urbanism

Strong Towns — Charles L. Marohn Jr.

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer — Charles L. Marohn Jr.

Two Wheels Good — Jody Rosen

Anthropology

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

Politics

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

Biographies / Memoirs

Becoming Trader Joe — Joe Coulomb

A Promised Land — Barack Obama

Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charles T. Munger

Fiction

Sci-fi

Soft sci-fi

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

Hard sci-fi

Seveneves — Neal Stephenson

Blindsight — Peter Watts

Echopraxia — Peter Watts

Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir

Delta-V — Daniel Suarez

Critical Mass — Daniel Suarez

"Literature"

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

Pop Fiction

Fight Club — Chuck Palahniuk