Ask HN: What books should I read this summer?

How innovation works

For sci-fi/dystopian I really liked Sea of Rust, Fire Upon The Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, Midworld, Of Men And Monsters, Metro 2033, Wool, The Maiden Voyage of The Destiny Unknown, The Electric State ...

I've seen a few similar threads on so far. Here are ones that I've added to my list (haven't gotten to read them yet).

Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, permutation city, diaspora, quantum theif, glass bead game, sapiens

'The art of electronics', and to watch: 'The seceret life of maschines' series.

Fiction:

  The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
  The Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein
  The Carpet Makers - Andreas Eschbach
  Nine Hundred Grandmothers - R.A. Lafferty
  Weaveworld - Clive Barker
  A Small Death in Lisbon - Robert Wilson
  Bones of the Earth - Michael Swanwick
  Enough Rope - Lawrence Block
  The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
  Her Smoke Rose Up Forever - James Tiptree Jr.
  Planetfall - Emma Newman

Biography/Memoirs:

  Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
  What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Richard Feynman
  Crime and Guilt: Stories - Ferdinand von Schirach
  Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
  Travels - Michael Crichton

Technical:

  The Unwritten Laws of Engineering - W.J. King

Nonfiction:

  Legal Systems Very Different From Ours - David Friedman
  Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World - Tim Marshall

I am thinking about reading The Lord of Light. Technology advances and people attain techno-Buddhist-Hindu god status.

I'm going to recommend you the last one I read and loved so much: Ghost in the wires by Kevin Mitnick. What a legend OMG!