My booklist 

The Art of Creative Thinking (Rod Judkins)

The Material Basis of Evolution (Richard Goldschmidt)
The Logic of Chance  (Eugene V. Koonin)
A World Beyond Physics (Stuart Kauffman)
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
On the Origin of Phyla (James W. Valentine)
Modes of Speciation (Michael J. D. White)
Mutation-Driven Evolution (Masatoshi Nei)

The United Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (Stephen P. Hubbell)

Evolution "On Purpose" (edited by Corning, Kauffman, Noble, Shapiro, Vane-Wright, and Pross)
What is Life? (Erwin Schrodinger)
What is Life? (Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan)

Philosophy of Biology (Peter Godfrey-Smith)
The Grammar of Science (Karl Pearson)
The Mathematical theory of Communication (Claude E. Shannon)
The Origins of Order (Stuart Kauffman)
On Growth and Form (D'Arcy W. Thompson)

Zero (Charles Siefe)
The Emergence of Probability (Ian Hacking)
The Language Game (Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater)
The Problems of Philosophy (Bertrand Russell)