By way of review, just a list of some of the books I've mentioned favorably in the last month or so, in no particular order; some older, some new (some I've read myself, some I've only read reviews of):
"The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul" by Rudy Rucker
"Meta Math" by Gregory Chaitin
"Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes" by Bryan Bunch
"The Calculus Lifesaver" by Adrian Banner
"The P = NP Question and Gödel’s Lost Letter" by RJ Lipton
"The Shape of Inner Space" by Shing-Tung Yau
"Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception" by Charles Seife
"Everything and More" by David Foster Wallace
"Group Theory In the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions" by Brian Hayes
"Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science" (forthcoming) by Lawrence Krauss
"Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life"(forthcoming) by Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner
...and I'll throw in one additional book that I haven't seen myself, but Sol over at WildAboutMath is strongly recommending:
"The Mystery of the Prime Numbers" by Matthew Watkins
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