This list attempts to capture notable books that continue to resonate long after completion. Perhaps they will resonate with you as well?
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race – Nicole Perlroth, 2021
Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain – Lisa Feldman Barrett, 2020
The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age – Conrad Wolfram, 2020
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) – Katie Mack, 2020
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of
Spacetime – Sean Carroll, 2019
The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep – Guy Leschziner, 2019
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine – Lindsey Fitzharris, 2019
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology – Adrienne Mayor, 2019
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America – Timothy Snyder, 2018
Brief Answers to the Big Questions – Stephen Hawking, 2018
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity – Byron Reese, 2018
The Order of Time – Carlo Rovelli, 2018
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Max Tegmark, 2017
DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution – James D. Watson, 2017
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of
Consciousness – Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life – Ed Yong, 2016
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? – Frans de Waal, 2016
Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey – Marie Mutsuki Mockett, 2016
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari, 2015
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission – Jim Bell, 2015
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes – Stephen Hawking, 1988
The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo’s Telescope Changed the Truth – James Burke, 1986
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business – Neil Postman, 1985
Cosmos – Carl Sagan, 1980