Bonobo: The Forgotton Ape by Frans De Waal, Frans Lanting (Photographer)
The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon
Elbow Room by Daniel C. Dennett
Stairway to the Mind by Alwyn Scott 
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Mike Behe                   
Evolving the Mind: on the nature of matter and the origin of consciousness by A.G. Cairns-Smith      
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David Chalmers
Consilience : The Unity of Knowledge  by Edmund O. Wilson
CONTACT by Carl Sagan
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick
Descarte's Error by Antonio Damasio
Darwin Among the Machines : The Evolution of Global Intelligence by George B. Dyson 
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Dan Dennett
Engines of Creation : The Coming Era of Nanotechnology by K. Eric Drexler 
 
  books by Gerald Edelman
Topobiology: An Introduction to Molecular Embryology
Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind see

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order by George Johnson.
The Science of Mind by Owen Flanagan
The Search for Order in a Chaotic World by P. Coveney and R. Highfield
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid  by Douglas Hofstadter 
The Creative Loop by Erich Harth
A BREIF HISTORY OF TIME by Stephen Hawking
Elemental Mind: Human Consciousness and the New Physics by Nick Herbert
The Hidden History of the Human Race by Mike Cremo and Rick Thompson
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes,Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension by Michio Kaku
The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind by E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Roger Lewin
The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution by Stuart Kauffman
At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman
The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance by Ernst E. Mayr
The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy by David Francis Pears
Unraveling Piltdown: The scientific fraud of the century and its solution by John Evangelist Walsh
The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain by Paul M. Churchland
The Great Mambo Chicken & The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge by Ed Regis
Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: A Contentiously Classical Approach by Georges Rey
The Conscious Brain by Steven Rose
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Searle
The Runaway Brain by Christopher Wills