These are books that we've read between us and have enjoyed. We recommend them to you.
Hubble's Universe - Simon Goodwin
Origins - John Gribbin and Simon Goodwin
The World Treasury of physics, Astronomy and Maths - T. Ferris
The Faber Book of Science - John Carey
Alice in Quantumland - Robert Gilmore (an allegory of Quantum mechanics)
Life's Other Secret - Ian Stewart
Achilles in the Quantum Universe - Richard Morris
Climbing Mount Improbable - Richard Dawkins
River out of Eden - Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkin
Fire in the Mind - George Johnson
The Nature of Space and Time - Hawking and Penrose
Origins Reconsidered - Leakey and Lewin
Dinosaurs in a Haystack - Stephen Jay Gould
Einstein's Mirror - Heyand Walters
The Infinite in the Finite - Alistair Macintosh Wilson
Nature's Numbers - Ian Stewart
The Jungle's of Randomness - Ivars Peterson
Genius - James Glieck
Chaos - James Glieck
Darwin - White and Gribbin
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Black Holes and Baby Universes - Stephen Hawking
Hawking's Quest for a Theory of Everything - Kitty Ferguson
The Stuff of the Universe - Gribbin and Rees
The Fire in the Equations - Kitty Ferguson
Any of the Beginners books including;
Darwin for Beginners - Miller and Van Loon
Newton for Beginners - William Rankin
Hawking for Beginners - Mcevoy and Zarate
Genetics for Beginners - S. Jones
The Origin of Humankind - Richard Leakey
Life's Grandeur - Stephen Jay Gould