What would you recommend?
I’m looking for books with action and adventure, like Lord of the Rings, or books that inspired BioShock, like Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
I’m also interested in stoic advice, like Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
I mostly read fiction. If you like action and adventure I'd definitely highly recommend the Malazan Empire series for fantasy. It's long, and extremely good. The author really knows how to make a world, which shows itself in the setting.
If you're down for sci-fi, I'd also recommend some of Heinlein's books.
Starship Troopers is sci-fi action with a nice dose of political consideration (it has almost nothing to do with the movie).
Glory Road is kind of a deconstruction of tropes and more in-depth look at "what
is happily ever after?" (and mixes fantasy and sci-fi) I also really like his short story "They", as well as the book
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which isn't really action/adventure but a fun and thought-provoking read. The concept of line marriages was really intriguing to me, even if I personally find them distasteful. Certainly a unique perspective.
A couple of classics are really worth reading too if you haven't, like
Dracula and
Treasure Island.
It may not be what you're looking for (less advice and more conversational/discovery), but I also find LLMs quite proficient for talking philosophy, so long as you are careful to ensure it takes adversarial and challenging roles rather than the default on of a sycophant.