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I'd suggest stuff by Timothy Leary (Chaos and Cybeculture for example) now now I know what your thinking "wait a minute, that's the LSD guru of the sixties" yes he is but he has very interesting opinions and views of our world these days, it's not hippy trippy sunshine stuff but there's interesting views in history and human race.
Second I'd recommend some HC-Sci-fi: Asimow, Gibson, Baxter, Huxley, Hesse.... there's so much stuff in there that it forces you to think about stuff, it may be boring at the beginning but after you've read the book you found yourself thinking about the universe and the world in a completley different ways.
Third Fairy tales: Neil Gaimans books are modern fairy tales and I found solitude and peace while reading them, they gave me an dream like view to the world and I haven't been too serious about 'modern day issues' after reading them, they give imagination an good rush.
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