Currently reading: The Remains of Day by Kazuo Ishiguro My top book recommendations, with my favorites bolded. Technical stuff is linked here: [[learning]]. ## Nonfiction - Jared Diamond - ***Guns Germs and Steel*** - Ashlee Vance - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Julia Galef - The Scout Mindset - William Zinsser - On Writing Well ## Realistic Fiction - Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls - John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men - ***The Grapes of Wrath*** - Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird - S. E. Hinton - The Outsiders - Sylvia Plath - ***The Bell Jar*** ## Science Fiction - Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game series: - ***Ender’s Game*** - Speaker for the dead - Xenocide - Children of the Mind - Ender's Shadow series: - Ender’s Shadow - Shadow of the Hegemon - Shadow Puppets - Shadow of the Giant - A Planet Called Treason - John Scalzi - Old Man's War - Frank Herbert - Dune - George Orwell - 1984 - Animal Farm - Timothy Zahn - Thrawn Trilogy (Star Wars) - ***Heir to the Empire*** - Dark Force Rising - The Last Command - Star Wars: Thrawn - Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five - Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman - The Illuminae Files - ***Illuminae*** - Gemina - Obsidio - Douglas Adams - ***The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*** - Andy Weir - ***Project Hail Mary*** - The Martian ## Fantasy - J. R. R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings trilogy - ***The Fellowship of the Ring*** - ***The Two Towers*** - ***The Return of the King*** - The Hobbit - George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire - A Game of Thrones - A Clash of Kings - ***A Storm of Swords*** - ***A Feast of Crows*** - A Dance with Dragons