Andrej Karpathy’s book recommends
Science Fiction: All short stories by Ted Chiang Especially: Exhalation, Division By Zero, Understand, The Story of Your Life, Liking What You See, The Lifecycle of Software Objects, What’s Expected of Us The Martian by Andy Weir A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (Chapter one for its portrayal of superintelligence) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Nonfiction: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins The Vital Question by Nick Lane How To Live by Derek Sivers 1984 by George Orwell In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond An Immense World by Ed Yong The Master Switch by Tim Wu
Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
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