Ok, I'm going to attempt to keep current here, but I'll probably fail like everyone else I know.
For those who know me and my wife Susan, we each have a stack of books a foot high next to the bed.
We met in a Starbucks attached to a Barnes & Noble... you wouldn't believe how much that says about us.
Now that we have two kids, I get more reading time than Susan does (sorry honey).
Here's the list:
Faster, James Gleick - a great analysis of the 'perceived' benefits of time-saving techology
and how recent technological advances cause us to perceive time differently
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker - I'm re-reading this because, well, I'm a bit slow.
There's a lot here to digest about the structure of language and how humans learn.
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky - I've read some of the recent collections of his speeches post-911
and now I'm trying to make my way through some of the thickest prose I've ever seen. Man, the dude is heavy.
Practical Cryptography - Niels Ferguson & Bruce Schneier -
If you enjoyed Applied Cryptography, your boss will enjoy this new book.
That should say it all.
Elements of ML Programming - Jeffrey Allman - My degree is in EE, so I'm an auto-didact in CS.
This book has opened my eyes to a world full of stuff I don't see on the job.