1)
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Pulitzer finalist)
2)
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
3)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
4)
Lying
5)
Free Will
6)
Outliers: The Story of Success
7)
The Grand Design
As you can tell I'm a huge fan of non-fiction. The last fiction book I read was the davinci code probably 7 or 8 years ago, although I really enjoyed it.
Also, these aren't books but they're interesting nonetheless -
http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses
The "theoretical minimum" is a set of six courses on physics (classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, special relativity, general relativity, cosmology, and statistical mechanics) that are intended for a general audience. The only requirement is that you know basic high school calculus. The courses build, so one should watch them in the order presented (from top to bottom, classical mechanics to statistical mechanics).
A lot of my non-science friends have found these videos to be incredibly illuminating. Some of them even said that they wished that they had studied physics in college after watching them.
I just think that as a living being on this earth one should know
something about quantum mechanics or special and general relativity, and these videos more than fulfill that need.
They're not
full length courses that would be taught to an undergraduate physics majors. These courses are specially tailor-made for a general but technically and scientifically-savvy audience.