• The Killing Star by George Zebrowski and Charles Pellegrino
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves by Frans de Waal
• 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