Vernor Vinge's "Across Realtime", "A Fire Upon the Deep", "A Deepness in the Sky", and "Rainbows End".
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Those above are few of the things I've read or watched 5 or more times. I may add more later as I think of them. (The exceptions are Jaynes and Ostrom, which I've revisited, but mostly just find myself thinking about over and over.)
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Oh, for some more material not on the lists of things you "should" like: Bujold's books "Memory" and "Mirror Dance" and "A Civil Campaign"; the movies "Almost Famous", "The Game", "Titanic", and "Cloud Atlas". I find all compelling...
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Biographies I can't help revisiting over and over: Skidelsky on Keynes (get the abridged one volume, it's better than the full 3 volumes), and Gleick on Feynman.
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Imre Lakatos's amazing book "Proofs and Refutations", which is about how we make definitions. I realize that doesn't exactly sound like a page-turner, but it's another book that completely changed my life & thinking.
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A Civil Campaign is one of the most perfectly choreographed novels I’ve ever read. The way in which tensions and misunderstandings mount and mount and mount, and then that disastrous dinner party.
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Spoilers. ... ... How had he rehearsed this vitally important meeting? "Mother, father, allow me to introduce... she's getting away!" What a great book. And, as you say, the choreography is perfect. I think it's better than Austen, though A is better than Bujold in other ways
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"Cloud Atlas" deserves to be known more widely. I'll add the brilliant "Primer" by Shane Carruth. Low-budget, tight plot, probably requires multiple viewings.
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