Climbing
Ascent (about Willi Unsoeld) - Leamer
Into Thin Air - Krakauer

Contemporary History
Blood Diamonds - Campbell
One Day in September - Macdonald, Douglas, et. al.
La Place de la Concorde Suisse - McPhee
The Two Koreas - Oberdorfer

Development
How to Change the World - Bornstein

Economics
Behind the Scenes at the WTO - Jawara & Kwa
The End of Poverty - Sachs
Globalization and Its Discontents - Stiglitz

Education
Cultural Literacy - Hirsch, Jr.
Lies My Teacher Told Me - Loewen

Environment
A Walk in the Woods - Bryson
Earth in the Balance - Gore
Encounters With the Archdruid - McPhee

Fiction
The Rule of Four - Caldwell & Thomason
The Pilgrimage - Coelho
Matilda - Dahl
The Witches - Dahl
The Princess Bride - Goldman
Wizard's First Rule - Goodkind
Brave New World - Huxley
The Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver
The Watchmen - Moore
The Chosen - Potok
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Rowling
Shane, and other stories - Schaefer
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut

Humor
History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - Barnes
Me Talk Pretty One Day - Sedaris
Anything else written by David Sedaris

Misc.
The Art of the Pilgrimage - Cousineau
Roots - Haley
The Perfect Storm - Jungston
Bringing Down the House - Mezrich

Other History
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Diamond

Philosophy
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Pirsig

Plays
(better to watch, but they can be good reads too)
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
Hamlet - you know the man
Much Ado About Nothing - same guy

Politics
Washington Goes to War - Brinkley
Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them - Franken

Religion/Spirituality
God's Debris - Adams
The Good Book - Gomes
Warriors of God - Reston
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism - Spong
In God's Underground - Wurmbrand

Soc/Anthro/Psych
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Cialdini
Suburban Nation - Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Speck
Swinging the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the... - Erenberg
There Are No Children Here - Kotlowitz
The Africans - Lamb
Ain't No Makin' It - MacLeod
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Postman
The Work of Nations - Reich
No More Prisons - Wimsatt

Sports
The Last Amateurs - Feinstein

War
Band of Brothers - Ambrose
A Wing and a Prayer - Crosby
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families - Gourevitch
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the making... - Owen