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As for non-fiction I just bring out the classics that taught me Lisp and Lispy things: Simply Scheme, SICP, On Lisp.
House of Leaves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves You must use a physical book, it's full of typographical and color changes to impress context different then just the words. Every time I re-read it, I look though a different lens and get something different from it.
It's mostly from the perspective of primitive humans being studied by aliens while the aliens teach them various topics like math and science. The aliens are studying these lost tribes because out in space they're at war with humans and cannot figure out how the humans are able to fight each other and still be winning the war with the aliens.
It's technical, mathy, economics, and business all wrapped together.
Unless youve just read a handful of books in your life it is impossible to give a good answer to the question. Books are not oranges.
And yet, there are many answers to that question in this thread.
Best Sci-fi: The Commonwealth Saga
Best Fantasy: The Wheel of Time
I was very influenced by Kurt Vonnegut when I was a teenager. Coming of age is a perfect time to learn that the fact that life is absurd doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't laugh, just the opposite. Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse Five are some of my favorite books of his. As an adult, I've been very influenced by the late Daniel Dennett and his naturalist philosophy. Books like From Bacteria to Bach and Back or D…
While this book has its problems, it is a wide-ranging, engaging, and readable history of ideas from antiquity to about the turn of the 20th century. I'm finding it difficult to put any other book ahead of this one.
Fiction: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Non-fiction: Pilates Anatomy by Rael Isacowitz - it changed me and changed my body.