- The Killing Star by George Zebrowski and Charles Pellegrino
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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- House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
- A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century by Heather Heying
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
- The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
- The Lost Art of Dying by L.S. Dugdale
- Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine by Derren Brown
- Language Families of the World by John McWhorter
- What I Believe by Bertrand Russell
- The Emeror's New Mind by Roger Penrose