Currently reading
The Annihilation Score (A Laundry Files Novel)
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Parasite Rex (with a New Epilogue): Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Reflections
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
There is some fairly hard core (for the layperson) particle physics in this book but I think it's explained really well. I loved the book but I did spend a summer as an undergrad at CERN so YMMV. :)
