I typically have quite a long reading list but here is roughly how it looks at the moment:
Mathematics:
- The Story of Mathematics – Jan Gullberg
- Alex’s Adventures in Numberland – Alex Bellos
- e the story of a number – Eli Maor
- Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability
- Eulers Gem
- The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers you can’t count on – Julian Havil
- Game Theory 101
- 17 Equations that Changed the world – Ian Stewart
- Prime Numbers
- The Mathematics of Life
- The Mathematical Traveller
Programming
- Beautiful Code
- Learning Perl
- Java Puzzlers
- Effective Java
- Dive into Python
- Eloquent Ruby
Data
- The Art of R Programming/Programming for Dummies
- The Data Journalism Handbook
- Think Stats
- Facts are Sacred – the Power of Data
- The Theory that would not die
- Visualise This
- Numbers Rule Your World
- Beautiful Visualization
- Beautiful Data
Tech industry
- Peopleware – Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
- Slack – Tom DeMarco
- The Inmates are Running the Asylum
- Beautiful Teams
- In the Plex
- Hackers
Economics
- The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
Op-Ed (for want of a better description)
- Heartburn – Norah Ephron
- I Feel Bad About My Neck – Noral Ephron
Travel
- The Cliffs of Insanity – Keith Duggan
- The Lost Continent – Bill Bryson
- Notes from a Big Country – Bill Bryson
- Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
- Down Under – Bill Bryson
- The Sharp End – Roger Sharp
Science
- The Joy of Chemistry
- A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
- Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep – David K. Randall
- How the Ocean Works – Mark Denny
- The Disappearing Spoon
- Weather for Dummies
Fiction
- The Deadline – Tom DeMarco
Other
- 18 Minutes – Peter Bregman