- How to Think Like a Mathematician - K Houston
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Paul Hoffman
- Mathematics: The New Golden Age - Keith Devlin
- Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh, Andrew Wiles
- The Mathematical Universe - William Dunham
- The Music of Primes - Marcus du Sautoy
- Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy
- A History of Pi - Petr Beckmann
- The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets - S Singh
- A Mathematician's Apology - G H Hardy
- Introduction to Complex Analysis - H A Priestley
- Mathematical Methods for Science Students - G Stephenson
- Guide to Analysis - M Hart
- Linear Algebra and Geometry - David Smart
- Vector Analysis and Cartesian Tensors - Kendall and Bourne
- Lebesgue Integration and Measure - A Weir
Physics/meta physics
- A Brief History of time - Stephen Hawking
- The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking
- Schrödinger's Kittens - John Gribbin
- A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The essential scientific writings of Albert Einstein - Stephen Hawking
- The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
- Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
- Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton!
I'd recommend Gödel Escher Bach for anyone with any interest in mathematics beyond it's day-to-day usage, well worth a read
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