Here are some of my favorite books. I highly recommend each one.
Computing
- Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
- Feynman Lectures on Computation - Richard Feynman
Philosophy/Mind/Language
- Consciousness Explained - Daniel Dennett
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Daniel Dennett
- The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
- The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
- How The Mind Works - Steven Pinker
- Tractatus Logico Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Physics
- General Relativity - Robert M. Wald
- Gravitation - Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler
- Quantum Gravity - Carlo Rovelli
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Mathematics
- A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry - Michael Spivak
- Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Some of Their Applications - Robert Gilmore
- Topology - James Munkres
- Algebraic Topology - Allen Hatcher
Fiction
- Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
- The Illuminatus Trilogy - Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah - Richard Bach
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach