Programming and Software:

Elements of Programming

Coders at Work

Microsoft, Apple:

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire? (read before)

How Would You Move Mount Fuji? : Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle -- How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers

Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made

Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders

Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company

Inside Steve's Brain

Inside Intuit: How the Makers of Quicken Beat Microsoft and Revolutionized an Entire Industry

Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Expert's Voice)

The Soul Of A New Machine

Kids:

Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker's Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss

Magic Tree House #42: A Good Night for Ghosts (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

Others:

Outliers: The Story of Success? (finished)

Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life? (finished)

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

A Short History of Nearly Everything