If you want to read only one book about Bitcoin, The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous would be the one to go for.

Vijay Boyapati systematically comparing Bitcoin to Gold and Fiat. An important piece to understand why the rise of Bitcoin is inevitable.

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In October 2008, in the midst of the global financial crisis, a person or a group of persons with the pseudonym “Satoshi Nakamoto” published a 9-page paper titled “Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system”. Nobody knows who Satoshi is and even though he/she/they were active in online discussions after the start of Bitcoin, Satoshi disappeared in 2011 and there was no sign of life ever since. This paper and a first implementation by Satoshi marked the birth of Bitcoin.