Astronomy:

• The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
  by Owen Gingerich
• Eclipse: The Celestial Phenomenon That Changed the Course of History
  by Duncan Steel
• Observing Meteors, Comets, Supernovae and Other Transient Phenomena
  by Neil Bone
• The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope
  by Ronald Florence
• The Planets
  by Dava Sobel
• Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril
  by Timothy Ferris
• Year of the Comets: A Journey from Sadness to the Stars
  by Jan Deblieu

Autobiographies, biographies, and memoirs:

• The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century
  by Howie Carr
• The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
  by Kitty Kelley
• Worse than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
  by John W. Dean
• Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
  by Erik Larson
• Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
  by Jennet Conant
• Secrets: A Memoir of Vietman and the Pentagon Papers
  by Daniel Ellsberg
• Dr. Folkman's War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer
  by Robert Cooke
• Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
  by Brenda Maddox
• Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era
  by John Heilemann
• Bell Labs: Life in the Crown Jewel
  by Narain Gehani
• The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island
  by Linda Greenlaw
• The Thomas Kinkade Story: A 20-Year Chronology of the Artist
  by Thomas Kinkade
  text by Rick Barnett
• The Case of the Frozen Addicts
  by J. William Langston, M.D. and Jon Palfreman
• A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
  by Sylvia Nasar
• Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma
  by Jeremy Bernstein
• The Last Lecture
  by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
• Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement
  by Rodney Rothman
• Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
  by Oliver Sacks
• Where Light and Shadow Meet: A Memoir
  by Emilie Schindler
• My Inventions
  by Nikola Tesla
• Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer
  by Daniel Blair Stewart
• Van Gogh
  by Frank Milner
• Charlie Wilson's War
  by George Crile

Computers:

• The C++ Programming Language (special edition)
  by Bjarne Stroustrup
• C++ Weekend Crash Course
  by Stephen R. Davis
• Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (2nd edition)
  by Scott Meyers
• Introduction to Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (standard edition)
  by Ivor Horton
• Mastering MATLAB 6: A Comprehensive Tutuorial and Reference
  by Duane Hanselman and Bruce Littlefield
• Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
  by Seymour Papert
• Robot Vision
  by Berthold Klaus Paul Horn
• Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days (3rd edition)
  by Rogers Cadenhead and Laura Lemay
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman

Other non-fiction:

• All Fishermen Are Liars: True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar
  by Linda Greenlaw
• Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
  by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
• Awakenings
  by Oliver Sacks
• A Death in Belmont
  by Sebastian Junger
• Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging: Inside Out
  by Thomas L. Szabo
• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Thoery
  by Brian Greene
• The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
  by Brian Greene
• The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
  by Lynne McTaggart
• Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
  by Gina Kolata
• Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
  by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad
• Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital
  by Alex Beam
• Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact
  by John Cornwell
• Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall (2nd edition)
  by Jeremy Bernstein
• How Not to Die: Suprising Lessons from America's Favorite Medical Examiner
  by Jan Garavaglia, M.D.
• IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
  by Edwin Black
• Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes (2nd edition)
  by Robert M. Wachter, M.D. and Kaveh S. Shojania, M.D.
• The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technological Revolution
  by Robert Buderi
• The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
  by Philip Zimbardo
• The Mafia Manager: A Guide to the Corporate Machiavelli
  by V.
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
  by Oliver Sacks
• National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England
  by Peter Alden, Brian Cassie, Richard Forster, Richard Keen, Amy Leventer, and Wendy B. Zomlefer
• No Mercy: The Host of America's Most Wanted Hunts the Worst Criminals of Our Time--in Shattering True Crime Cases
  by John Walsh with Philip Lerman
• Our Improbable Universe: A Physicist Consideres How We Got Here
  by Michael Mallary
• Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
  by Jeremy Bernstein
• The Republican War on Science
  by Chris Mooney
• Sixteen Minutes from Home: The Columbia Space Shuttle Tragedy
  by Mark Cantrell and Donald Vaughan
• Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design
  by Henry Petroski
• Stupid White Men ... and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
  by Michael Moore
• The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready?
  by Stacey L. Knobler, Alison Mack, Adel Mahmoud, and Stanley M Lemon (eds.)
• To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
  by Henry Petroski
• The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook: Kauai Revealed (5th edition)
  by Andrew Doughty and Harriet Friedman
• The Way of Melchizedek
  by Thomas L. Cossette
• We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (2nd edition)
  by David Lewis
• Why the Toast Always Always Lands Butter Side Down: The Scientific Reasons Everything Goes Wrong
  by Richard Robinson

Fiction:

• Big Trouble
  by Dave Barry
• The Da Vinci Code
  by Dan Brown
• Critical
  by Robin Cook
• There Goes Archimedes
  cartoons by S. Harris
  edited and annotated by S.N. Arseculeratne
• The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories
  by Oscar Wilde