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  • Dune saga by Frank Herbert. Science fiction at its best.

  • Road to Reality by Roger Penrose. it's almost all you need to know to dig into modern physics, not a light read but worthwhile. Penrose is a mathematical physicist and worked closely with Stephen Hawking.

  • The Theoretical Minimum series by Leonard Susskind. There are 3 books so far: classical, quantum and relativistic physics, all the basics needed to start doing physics or to remember the forgotten knowledge from out younger selves. Susskind is one of the fathers of string theory and this books are an extract of his teachings in Stanford.

  • Everything from Fyodor Dostoevsky, is the most comical, depressing, wonderfully engaging author I've read.