Some of my favorite books (alphabetical by author):

General Non-Fiction

• A Man on the Moon, by Andrew Chaikin
• What If?, by Robert Cowley
• One Hell of a Gamble, by Aleksandr Fursenko, Timothy Naftali
• Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham
• Lost Moon, by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
• Flight: My Life in Mission Control, by Chris Kraft
• Everything Is Under Control, by Robert Anton Wilson

Science

• Mathematical Methods for Physicists, by George B. Arfken, Hans-Jurgen Weber
• The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics, by Julian Barbour
• The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
• Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick
• Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries, by John Gribbin
• Introduction to Electrodynamics, by David J. Griffiths
• Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science, by John W. Harris, Horst Stocker
• Fundamentals of Physics, by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker
• Godel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• The Mind's I, by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett, et al
• At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity, by Stuart Kauffman
• Mining the Sky, by John S. Lewis
• The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel, by Eugene F. Mallove, Gregory L. Matloff
• Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms, by Wil McCarthy
• Electricity and Magnetism (Berkely Physics Course, Vol. 2), by Edward M. Purcell
• Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
• The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, by Carl Sagan
• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

Computers

• C++ Primer Plus, by Stephen Prata
• The C++ Programming Language, by Bjarne Stroustrup

General Fiction

• The Alienist, by Caleb Carr
• Archangel, by Robert Harris
• Enigma, by Robert Harris
• Fatherland, by Robert Harris
• Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson
• The Confusion, by Neal Stephenson
• The System Of The World, by Neal Stephenson
• Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
• 1984, by George Orwell
• The Cobra Event, by Richard Preston

Science Fiction

• Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card
• Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
• Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, by Orson Scott Card
• Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card
• Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
• 2010: Odyssey Two, by Arthur C. Clarke
• 2061: Odyssey Three, by Arthur C. Clarke
• Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
• Rendezvous With Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
• Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Icehenge, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Contact, by Carl Sagan