I'm a 3rd year undergraduate student and for various reasons I'm taking the rest of the year out and returning to studying Electronic Engineering next September. I know there are a lot of "Best books of 20xx" posts on HN, but I'm looking for overall recommendations for someone who is intelligent and thinks a lot, but has done almost no reading before (excluding school readings etc.) and wants catch up with the rest of humanity in terms of literature. I intend on spending the next 6 months doing a lot of reading, and when I return to college, I intend on getting into a good habit of continued reading. I'm interested to see what the HN community considers the top books of all time to add to my list, both fiction and non-fiction. My current list is as follows (no particular order):
1: Happy City (Charles Montgomery)
2: Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
3: Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
4: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Peter Thiel)
5: The Tender Bar (J. R. Moehringer)
6: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Charles Duhigg)
7: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Ashlee Vance)
8: Superintelligence (Nick Bostrom)
9: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter)
10: How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
11: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
12: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner)
13: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Randall Munroe)
14: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (Douglas Adams)
15: Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (William MacAskill)
16: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward Tufte)
17: Butterick's Practical Typography (Matthew Butterick)