The view from the cheap seats by Neil Gaiman http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24331386-the-view-from-th... (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24331386-the-view-from-the-cheap-seats) - lots of good content about books, music, comic books history, etc. There's over 80 other books mentioned inside and it makes you want to read all of them. Dracula by Bram Stoker - because it was mentioned in the previous one and it's amazing how many elements we borrowed / changed / rewritten in the new works compared to the original.
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