Highly recommended reads:

Business
D. Michael Abrashoff, It’s Your Ship
Robert Cialdini, Influence
David D’Alessandro, Career Warfare
Lou Gerstner, Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Managing With Power
History
Peter Bernstein, Against the Gods
Michael Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning
David Salsburg, The Lady Tasting Tea
Urbanism
Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language
Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Mark Rosentraub, Major League Losers
Zachary Schrag, The Great Society Subway
Sudhir Venkatesh, Off the Books