I read a lot of space opera, improv theory, and whatever else grabs me. This is a partial list and probably won’t be updated much, but it gives you an idea of what I like to read.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

• Judas Unchained – Peter F. Hamilton
• Pandora’s Star – Peter F. Hamilton
• The Dreaming Void / The Temporal Void / The Evolutionary Void – Peter F. Hamilton
• Salvation – Peter F. Hamilton
• The Honor Harrington series (all 13+ books) – David Weber
• The Lost Fleet series (Dauntless through Victorious) – Jack Campbell
• The Mote in God’s Eye – Larry Niven
• The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
• Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
• Wizard’s First Rule – Terry Goodkind
• The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
• The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
• All These Worlds / For We Are Many – Dennis E. Taylor
• Cartwright’s Cavaliers – Mark Wandrey
• Timebound – Rysa Walker
• Fractured Era: Legacy Code – Autumn Kalquist
• The Einstein Prophecy – Robert Masello
• The Expanse series (all 9 novels) – James S. A. Corey
• The Culture series (all 10 novels) – Iain M. Banks
• Revelation Space series + Revenger trilogy + House of Suns – Alastair Reynolds
• Children of Time trilogy – Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Three-Body Problem trilogy – Cixin Liu
• Dune series (books 1–4) – Frank Herbert
• Snow Crash / Cryptonomicon / Seveneves / The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
• Old Man’s War series – John Scalzi
• The Martian / Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
• Ender’s Game / Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card
• First Law trilogy – Joe Abercrombie
• The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
• Red Rising – Pierce Brown
• Zones of Thought trilogy – Vernor Vinge
• Rendezvous with Rama / 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
• I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
• Locked Tomb series – Tamsyn Muir
• Spiral Wars series (9 books) – Joel Shepherd
• Frontlines series (9 books) – Marko Kloos
• Expeditionary Force series (18+ books) – Craig Alanson
• Galaxy’s Edge series – Jason Anspach
• Undying Mercenaries series (24 books) – B.V. Larson
• Laundry Files series (13 books) – Charles Stross
• Uplift Saga (all 6 books) – David Brin
• Fear Saga trilogy – Stephen Moss
• Southern Reach trilogy – Jeff VanderMeer
• Blindsight – Peter Watts
• 14 / The Fold – Peter Clines
• Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

The Black Jewels (Anne Bishop)

I’ve read the whole series: Queen of the Darkness, Tangled Webs, Shalador’s Lady, Twilight’s Dawn, The Shadow Queen, The Queen’s Bargain, The Queen’s Weapons, The Queen’s Price.

Improv & Comedy

• Truth in Comedy – Charna Halpern
• The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual – Matt Besser
• Improvisation at the Speed of Life – T.J. Jagodowski
• Pirate Robot Ninja: An Improv Fable – Billy Merritt
• A Subversive’s Guide to Improvisation – David Razowsky
• How to Improvise a Full-Length Play – Kenn Adams
• Teaching Improv: The Essential Handbook – Mel Paradis
• DO IT NOW: Essays on Narrative Improv – Parallelogramophonograph
• Acting on Impulse – Carol Hazenfield
• Games for Actors and Non-Actors – Augusto Boal
• Teaching Social Skills Through Sketch Comedy and Improv Games – Shawn Amador
• The NEW Comedy Bible – Judy Carter
• 101 Improv Games for Children and Adults – Bob Bedore
• Speak with Distinction – Edith Skinner

Classics & Literature

• East of Eden – John Steinbeck
• Moby Dick – Herman Melville
• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
• The Measure of a Man – Martin Luther King Jr.
• All Creatures Great and Small series – James Herriot
• The Stranger – Albert Camus
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• Dracula – Bram Stoker
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
• The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
• Cat’s Cradle / Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Tech & Business

• Fundamentals of Software Architecture – Mark Richards
• Continuous Delivery – Jez Humble
• Effective Java – Joshua Bloch
• Java Concurrency in Practice – Joshua Bloch
• Getting Things Done – David Allen
• The 4-Hour Workweek – Timothy Ferriss
• Crush It! – Gary Vaynerchuk
• Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
• Raving Fans – Ken Blanchard
• Eat That Frog – Brian Tracy

Science & Nonfiction

• A Brief History of Time – Stephen W. Hawking
• Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX – Eric Berger
• Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed – Carl Zimmer
• Presto! – Penn Jillette
• Furiously Happy – Jenny Lawson
• An Unquiet Mind – Kay Redfield Jamison
• Backstage Handbook – Paul Carter
• Cosmos – Carl Sagan
• Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
• Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
• Becoming – Michelle Obama
• Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
• Born Standing Up – Steve Martin
• The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
• Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• Malcolm Gladwell (7 books including Outliers, Blink, Talking to Strangers)
• The Sandman (full cast production) – Neil Gaiman
• Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
• How to Win Friends & Influence People – Dale Carnegie
• Good to Great – Jim Collins
• Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William L. Shirer
• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage – Alfred Lansing

Theater Tech

• Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information – Paul Carter

For more (but still a partial list) see my shelves on Goodreads.