As for fiction, you can't go wrong with Orwell, Vonnegut, Huxley, and the like. I don't read a lot of fiction, though. I recently read
American Psycho which was great and darkly humorous.
As for non-fiction and popular science, I'm currently breezing through
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body which is an interesting summary (only 200 pages) of the origin and evolution of the human anatomy and our connections to all other living things. One of my favorite topics.
In the non-fiction department, you also can't go wrong with Richard Dawkins' books on biology/evolution. Anything by Carl Sagan is bound to be inspirational. Jared Diamond's
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies and it's "sequel"
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed are both fascinating and illuminating (moreso the first one).
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The eye of the world series by Robert Jordan
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If you like boring books that are about 75% nonsense filler.
Lord of the Rings is far better and the only good fantasy novels I've ever read.
I read the first one and couldn't get through the second.