anupamkapoor

goedel escher bach (douglas hofstadter)

surely you are joking mr feynman (rpf)

i like heinlein's "moon is a harsh mistress"

slaughter house five (kurt vonnegut)

alfred-bester's "tiger-tiger / stars-my-destination"

use of weapons (ian m banks)

another (more interactive) option might be to pickup a standard compilers text-book e.g aho-ullman / aho-ullman-sethi

theta-magical memas errr metamagical themas (dogulas hofsta)

origin of order (stuart kauffman)