I&#x27;m a 3rd year undergraduate student and for various reasons I&#x27;m taking the rest of the year out and returning to studying Electronic Engineering next September. I know there are a lot of &quot;Best books of 20xx&quot; posts on HN, but I&#x27;m looking for overall recommendations for someone who is intelligent and thinks a lot, but has done almost no reading before (excluding school readings etc.) and wants catch up with the rest of humanity in terms of literature. I intend on spending the next 6 months doing a lot of reading, and when I return to college, I intend on getting into a good habit of continued reading. I&#x27;m interested to see what the HN community considers the top books of all time to add to my list, both fiction and non-fiction. My current list is as follows (no particular order):<p><pre><code>  1: Happy City (Charles Montgomery)

  2: Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)

  3: Man&#x27;s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)

  4: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Peter Thiel)

  5: The Tender Bar (J. R. Moehringer)

  6: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Charles Duhigg)

  7: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Ashlee Vance)

  8: Superintelligence (Nick Bostrom)

  9: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter)

  10: How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)

  11: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)

  12: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner)

  13: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Randall Munroe)

  14: Hitchhiker&#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy series (Douglas Adams)

  15: Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (William MacAskill)

  16: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward Tufte)

  17: Butterick&#x27;s Practical Typography (Matthew Butterick)</code></pre>
Ask HN: I have no commitments for the next 6 months – what books should I read?