mdp2021

Gödel, Escher, Bach is an artistic appetizer over the stimulating world of structures, - not a manual.

Italo Calvino - Le città invisibili (which not only masterfully connects ideas, but most of the realm of existence and experience)

"Lectures on Scientific Method"

Mark Forsyth's Etymologicon , which I promptly found and read: not only it is a must-read in general