Much of the work I do is influenced by the books I read. Here are some of my favorites that I highly suggest you read, in no particular order.

What if?

Randall Munroe

How to Invent Everything

Ryan North

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden

American Kingpin

Nick Bolton

The Man Who Was Thursday

G. K. Chesterton

Solutions and Other Problems

Allie Brosh

Pihkal

Alexander and Ann Shulgin

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the rest of the Hitchhiker's series

Douglas Adams

There is no Antimemetics Division

qntm

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Charles Yu

On a Sunbeam

Tillie Walden

Cult of the Dead Cow

Joseph Menn

Things to Make and do in the Fourth Dimension

Matt Parker

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman

Richard Feynman

We Have No Idea

Jorge Cham

Steal This Computer 4.0

Wallace Wang

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore

Every Tool's a Hammer

Adam Savage

I, Robot or The Complete Robot

Isaac Asimov

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick

Operation White Rabbit

Dennis McDougal

Tales From the Loop

Simon Stålenhag

Killer Candy

Jason Murphy

Watchmen

Alan Moore

Masters of Doom

David Kushner

Voices From the Radium Age

Joshua Glenn

50 Years of Text Games

Aaron A. Reed

It's Lonely as the Centre of the Earth

Zoe Thorogood

Biopunk

Marcus Wohlson

Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories

Naomi Kritzer

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

Fuck Yeah, Video Games

Daniel Hardcastle

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

Great Falls, MT

Reggie Watts

The Anthropocene Reviewed

John Green

Several People Are Typing

Calvin Kasulke

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.