I just finished reading my 500th English language book. Here are my favorite science books to open your brains and shake your thinking forever:
Thinking Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahnemann, Nobel Prize winner in Economics
Genre: Human Psychology, Behavior Economics, Decision-making
The Social Animal
Author: Elliot Aronson (revised by Joshua Aronson)
Genre: Human Psychology
Finding Flow
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Genre: Human Psychology, Happiness, Productivity
Cosmos
Author: Carl Sagan (the NASA scientist behind the Voyager mission)
Genre: Astronomy, popular science
The Language Instinct
Author: Steven Pinker
Genre: Linguistics
Factfulness
Author: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Genre: Statistics, Human Psychology, Philanthropy
Honorable Mentions
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Behave by Robert Sapolsky
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything by Dr Hannah Fry and Adam Rutherford