Everyone should read fiction, not just for the empathy it builds but for the possibilities it lets us imagine. Here's my best attempt to explain why.
Books I mention or show in this video:
The Three Body Problem / Death's End by Liu Cixin
The Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkein
The Power by Naomi Alderman
One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Emma / Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen