"Vehicles: Experiments in synthetic psychology" by Valentino Braitenberg.

Has shaped my outlook on artificial intelligence more than anything else, and this was written in 1984, long before GPT-3 was a thing. Absolutely "mind-blowing" in that it deconstructs and then reassembles your understanding of what a mind is.

Best short story: "The Egg" (by Andy Weir); just read it, is very short, no spoilers.

Best entertainment/fiction: "Murderbot Diaries"

Is highly entertaining, very unique protagonist, raises some very interesting ethical/philosophical questions and does far-future sci-fi worldbuilding insanely well.