another list of recs

[Aron]

seen these already mentioned, so technically second votes:)
Altered Carbon Broken Angels Woken Furies trilogy
Seveneves



sci-fi:

duology
Thirteen Original title: Black Man is better
Thin Air




old but gold:The Black Cloud

Interface
The Ministry for the Future

All of Iain M Banks.
I mean, I could say
Consider Phlebas
Use of Weapons
Look to Windward
Surface Detail

are a continuation of storylines, so worth reading together

The Player of Gamesis not as involving as the others, so it's a good first read from Banks

The Hydrogen Sonata
because it has the most awesome spaceship in it (Mistake Not... )

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
because of the onion planets

The Algebraist
best story and action

Excessionand Inversions are the polar opposites too, either of them worth the read separately, but to think they are the creation of the same person in the same universe, it's nothing less than awesome.

The Atrocity Archives The Laundry Files series from Charles Stross is the most realistic (scientific) representation of magic (builds a lot on Terry Pratchett, but it's an entirely different kind of world)


scientific books:
The Order of Time
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
The Myths We Live by
Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment

[Fraser]

I loved Player of Games. I'm halfway through the third book right now. Such great suggestions.