I'm reading two books at the moment:

Asphalt Nation: How the automobile took over America and how we can take it back by Jane Holtz Kay. I'm just at the beginning but it seems good so far. Title pretty much explains what it's about.

Edison & the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death by Mark Essig. I'm loving this book but I'm not sure how many people it would appeal to. I'm anti-death penalty and I'm studying electrical engineering. So I find it interesting in both regards (I haven't gotten to the electric chair part yet, but I know that Edison was anti-death penalty, but he built the electric chair, running off AC, to show how dangerous AC electricity was, to try to scare people away from Westinghouse. He even tried to get people to use the term "Westinghoused" to mean electrocuted).