my choice
Not in any particular order:
Various Constellation / Night Sky Atlases (Epoch 2000.0)
eg ISBN 0 600 35113 0
** The Story of Astronomy Peter Aughton ISBN 978 0 85738 598 7
Collider Paul Halpern ISBN 978 0 470 28620 3
The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler ISBN 978 0 141 39453 4
The Subatomic Zoo Cindy Schwarz ISBN 0 88318 954 2
Observer’s Handbook Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Annual (2022) ISBN 978 1 927879 25 2
The Cosmic Web J Richard Gott ISBN 978 0 691 15726 9
Finding our place in the Universe Hélène Courtois ISBN 978 0 262 039956
Ripples in Spacetime Govert Schilling ISBN 978 0 674 97166 0
The Cosmic Landscape Leonard Susskind ISBN 978 0 316 01333 8
On Gravity A Zee ISBN 978 0 691 17438 9
Critical Mass Philip Ball ISBN 978 0 099 45786 2
Reality is not what it seems Carlo Rovelli ISBN 978 0 141 98321 9
CERN: the large Hadron Collider/ Don Lincoln ISBN 978 0 8018 9144 1
The Quantum Labyrinth Paul Halpern ISBN 978 0 465 09758 6
Curiosity (Mars rover) Emily Lakdawalla ISBN 78 3 319 68144 7
Into the Black Rowland White ISBN 978 0 552 160 223
and finally a fair collection of Science Fiction paperbacks