The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan The Fellowship of the Ring -- J.R.R. Tolkien SpaceX From The Ground Up - Chris Prophet, SPACE AUTHOR An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin The Unorthodox Engineers - Colin Kapp The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson Selections from the Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - anthology The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine The King in Yellow - Robert Chambers Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir Blindsight - Peter Watts Rockets and People -- Boris Chertok Beowulf's Children - Larry Niven Machine of Death - anthology Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration -- Asif A. Siddiqi Railway Adventure - L. T. C. Rolt The Road not Taken - Harry Turtledove Narrow Dog to Carcassonne - Terry Darlington The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven The Difficult Road to Mars -- V. G. Perminov Space Eldritch - anthology Taming Liquid Hydrogen: the Centaur Upper Stage Rocket 1958-2002 -- Virginia Dawson and Mark Bowles Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin - Francis Spufford Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein The Scar - China MiƩville Making the Invisible Visible: A History of the Spitzer Infrared Telescope Facility -- Renee M. Rottner Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card The Princess Bride - S. Morgenstern, as abridged by William Goldman Contact - Carl Sagan Starship Troopers -- Robert Heinlein A Brief History of Time -- Stephen Hawking Dune -- Frank Herbert The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein Cosmos -- Carl Sagan Going Postal - Terry Pratchett The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World - A. K. Dewdney The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter Kingpin - Kevin Poulsen Redshirts - John Scalzi Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky The Soul of A New Machine - Tracy Kidder The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu Classical Electrodynamics -- John David Jackson Wizardry Compiled - Rick Cook Airframe - Michael Crichton Cadillac Desert -- Marc Reisner Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John D. Clark most-anything from Course of Theoretical Physics -- Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz (mostly) The Kon-Tiki Expedition - Thor Heyerdahl The Feynmann Lectures A Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter Miller Jr. The Martian - Andy Weir The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson Blame! -- Tsutomu Nihei Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson Neuromancer -- William Gibson Foreigner -- C.J. Cherryh The Atrocity Archives -- Charles Stross Fevre Dream -- George R. R. Martin At the Mountains of Madness -- H. P. Lovecraft Longitude -- Dava Sobel The Iliad -- Homer Last Chance to See -- Douglas Adams & Mark Cawardine The Odyssey -- Homer Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia -- Chris Stewart Ringworld -- Larry Niven The Hunt for Red October -- Tom Clancy 2010: Odyssey Two -- Arthur C. Clarke Rainbows End -- Vernor Vinge Ancillary Justice -- Ann Leckie The Aeneid -- Virgil The Lost World -- Arthur Conan Doyle The Player of Games -- Iain M. Banks Master and Commander -- Patrick O'Brian Titan -- Stephen Baxter Fundamentals of Astrodynamics -- Bates, Muller, and White How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming -- Mike Brown The Life and Times of Corn -- Charles Micucci Debt: The First 5,000 Years -- David Graeber Bullshit Jobs -- David Graeber The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World -- David Graeber Endurance - Alfred Lansing The Fate of Abraham - Peter Oborne Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit - Phillip Stephens We are Legion (We are Bob) - Dennis E. Taylor Roadside Picnic - Boris & Arkady Strugatsky The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C Clarke The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman The Enchiridion - Epictetus Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer Diaspora - Greg Egan Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy - Serhii Plokhy The Clockwork Rocket - Greg Egan