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I second Bill Bryson's A Short History... .
When I was a kid, I read Cosmos by Carl Sagan, a marvelous book that made an everlasting impression on my mind. This book, now probably a bit outdated, deserves a new commented edition (I know there's a recent edition, I don't know if it has been updated or is just a reprint). My all-time favourite.
John Gribbin's In Search of Schrodinger's cat is another book I regularly go back to. Also by John Gribbin Science: a history (1543-2001) is a very interesting book.
Two books by Simon Singh: The Code Book and Big Bang.
Anything by Ben MacIntyre, I've read Operation Mincemeat, Double Cross and Agent ZigZag (WWII espionage and cover operations) and The Napoleon of Crime (the life of Adam Worth, a notorious thief)
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