Five years worth of book recommendations

A list of some of the best books I’ve read or re-read over the last few years. I only include those that have had an impact on me I can remember — and that means filtering out most books. Hope you can get some inspiration from this list.

Sci-fi:

Player of Games (Banks)
Hydrogen Sonata (Banks)
Hyperion trilogy (Dan Simmons)
Excession (Banks)
Dune trilogy (Frank Herbert)
Foundation series (Isaac Asimov)

Life/Spirituality:

Awareness (de Mello)
The way to love (de Mello)
Awakening of intelligence (Krishnamurti)
The first and last Freedom (Krishnamurti)

Communication:

Writing that works (Kenneth Roman), seriously read this short book.

Other:

Impro: Improvisation and Theatre (Keith Johnstone)
Black Swan (Taleb)
Homo Prospectus (Seligman)
Sapiens (Harari)
Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Rilke)
The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid (at least read the intro)