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The Design of Everyday Things. Probably the quintessential book on design, the basic premise is that if you can't figure out how a thing works, it's not your fault.

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Its thesis is that everything is built up of smaller things that are all trying to replicate or get replicated.

The Bible

I was hoping someone would mention this book.

The Elements of Computer Systems (better known as NAND to Tetris). Describes a computer from the bottom up.

The Quran

Feynman QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

I haven't read the book, but reading about the book's argument that language is a type of multiplayer game

Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down. About the engineering of various things, mostly buildings. Highly recommend.

The Machinery of Life by David Goodsell. It's a short book with beautiful diagrams and explanations of microbiology.

The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell - it's a short microbiology book with paintings and renders of molecules and molecular processes. It's easy to read and imagining biology is straightforward when you can just see the molecules.

A History of the Arab Peoples

Space and Time in General Relativity by David Mermin