Book Recommendations

Politics, Society, Economics, and Government

• Democracy May Not Exist but We'll Miss it When it's Gone by Astra Taylor
• Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
• The People vs. Democracy by Yasha Mounk
• Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World by Annie Lowery
• The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton
• Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan
• One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger by Matthew Yglesias
• Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson
• The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run—or Ruin—an Economy by Tim Harford
• One Billion Americans by Matt Yglesias

Philosophy

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
• The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr

Mathematics, Science, and Technology

• The Gödel's Proof by Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
• Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised by Katie Hafner
• Existential Physics by Sabine Hossenfelder

History

• The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan
• The History of Rome (Series) by Titus Livy
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
• The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence Principe
• The Bright Ages by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry

Fiction

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Internet Newspaper by Adam Gnade
• The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
• This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Poetry

• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón

Fantasy & Science Fiction

• The Stormlight Archive (Series) by Brandon Sanderson
• The Wizard of Earthsea (Series) by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Mistborn (Series) by Brandon Sanderson
• Alloy of Law (Series) by Brandon Sanderson
• The First Law (Series) by Joe Abercrombie
• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Beren and Lùthien by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Never the Wind by Francesco Dimitri
• The Book of Hidden Things by Francesco Dimitri