Hello there. Here are some books and articles which I found very useful and I hope you do too. Below is a list of all the resources. I also found some podcasts really helpful. One of them is called the Hidden Curriculum by Allex Hollingsworth and Sebastian Tello-Trillo. It's available on Spotify.
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/hidden-curriculum
Books (all of them are available on Amazon but one)
If economics interests you can start by reading:
Cartoon Introduction to economics by Volume I and II by Bauman
The Economics Book Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
Freakonomics an extremely popular book by Levitt and Dubner
Poor economics by Banerjee and Duflo
Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness by Thaler and Sunstein
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
Applied Economics by Thomas Sowell
Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
Why Nations Fail: the origins of power, prosperity and poverty by Acemoglu and Robinson
Development as freedom by Amartya Sen
The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
If you want to pursue Ph.D. these books should come handy
Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School―But Didn’t by Marc Bellemere
Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Angrist and Pischke
Mastering metrics: the path from Cause to Effect by Angrist and Pischke
Thriving in Economics: An aspiring Ph.D. Student edition by Tatyana Deryugina https://ai4good.org/product/thriving-econ-aspiring-phd/
Advanced Microeconomic Theory by Reny and Jehle
Introductory Econometrics by Wooldridge
Econometric Analysis of cross-sectional and panel data by Wooldridge
Microeconomic Analysis by Hal R. Varian
Intermediate Microecomics by Hal R. Varian
Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics by Alpha C. Chiang
Mathematics for economists by Simone and Blume
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Economical Writing, Third Edition: Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Professor is In by Karen Kelsky
A Guide to the U.S. Academic Economics Job Market for Teaching-Focused Jobs by Fox et al. Doi: https://allisonluedtke.github.io/wobsite/TeachingJobMarketDraftMay2023.pdf
A guide and advice for economists on the junior academic job market. https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=869
Some psychology and self-help books I found helpful along the way
Hidden Potential: the science of achieving greater things by Adam Grant
Atomic Habits: An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones by James Clear
The mountain is you: transforming self-sabotage into self-mastery by Brianna West
The Growth Mindset by Carol Dweck
The power of one thought: master your mind master your life by B.K. Shivani