Rest of Hyperion Cantos
Maybe rest of ender’s game books?
Expanse books
Finish Dune and the physical books you own
One place to start: The 2018 National Book Awards finalists for fiction. Their characters include a group of black men in New York City; a teenage Cherokee boy; and a group of queer friends in Chicago during the AIDS epidemic. Here are the titles of those:
“A Lucky Man” by Jamel Brinkley
“Where the Dead Sit Talking” by Brandon Tobson
“The Great Believers” by Rebecca Makkai
3 Body Problem series
Classic sci fi in general
Terry Pratchet books
Culture books by Ian man
Asimov, bradbury etc.
Stranger in a strange land, more heinlein
Altered Carbon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Galactic_Heroes Pride and Prejudice
Chaucer’s canterbury tales, and compare to hyperion
Kafka books
Blindsight, by Peter watts
Something Coming Throug, Paul McAuley
The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernon Vinge
The Mote in God’s Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Marx and Lenin, Das Capital, more communist literature so I know what I’m talking about
A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
What If 1 and 2 by XKCD
Ringworld
1984
Brave New World
The Human Condition
The Dictator’s Handbook
The Design Way
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Sapiens by Yuval
A Concise Chinese English Dictionary For Lovers
Murakami stuff
21 lessons for the 21st century
Dark Matter
Charm Offensive