The only books I've read that I could recommend to you are either Dutch literature or already named (e.g. Kahneman). Thanks for recommending Drive, I'm nearly halfway and quite enjoying it. Most books I get bored of too quickly, especially when they take so long to actually go through meaningful information / plot (i'm looking at you LOTR) but I quite like this one. Question for you: what book(s) have been the most important to you so far? Not the ones that shaped society, but the ones that shaped you as a person.
It's fair to say that Kundera's The Joke reshaped a lot of my philosophy. William Gibson's Neuromancer revised my tastes for fiction. Gaddis' The Cold War: A New History reshaped my understanding of geopolitics. I owe my understanding of the Internet to Sherry Turkle's Alone Together. My conception of society and civilization owes a lot to George R Stewart's Earth Abides.