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It's very rare for me to read a technical book cover to cover. I recently read IPv6 FUNDAMENTALS by Graziani (Cisco), but that was more an act of desperation. The best CS-related book I've ever read was probably MEASURING AND MANAGING PERFORMANCE IN ORGANIZATIONS by Robert Austin. It completely changed the way I see the world, both professional and personally. Austin uses agency theory, an application of game theory, to show how incentives in an information economy drive dysfunction into organizations because not all metrics of behavior can be adequately or economically measured. This is extremely applicable to, for example, incentive programs in high tech organizations. At the time he wrote it, Austin was working on his Ph.D. in (I dimly recall) operations research at Carnegie Mellon while working as an executive in IT for Ford Motor Company Europe. Now he's on the tenured faculty at Harvard Business School.