Reddit reviews Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc

For pleasure:

• The Disappearing Spoon
  
• Periodic Tales
  
• Stuff Matters
  
• Molecules of Murder
  
• The Elements of Murder
  
• The Elements
  
• Molecules
  
• Molecules that Changed the World
  
• The Chemistry Book
  
  Undergraduate
  
  
• Organic:
  Organic Chemistry as a Second Language, The art of writing reasonable organic reaction mechanisms
  
  
• Inorganic: Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory
  
  
• Analytical: Principles of Instrumental Anlsysis, Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry
  
  Graduate
  
  
• Organic: Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry, March's Advanced Organic Chemistry, Greene's Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis, Purification of Laboratory Chemicals, Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis
  
• Inorganic: Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

If you like non-fiction:

Periodic Tales - Hugh Aldersey-Williams


Dark Money - Jane Mayer


Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Yep, I'm supes liberal. Sorry.

I can recommend a neat book called Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersey-Williams. It's a history of the discovery of each element on the periodic table, and so it becomes a brief overview of the state of science and engineering from thousands of years ago to the present day. It sounds incredibly dry, but it's written for lay audiences and it's actually fun to read, full of historical anecdotes and colorful characters.

I'll also point to the /r/askhistorians book list, which has a section on the history of science. These will be a mix of scholarly and popular works, but they're all recommended by the esteemed panel of experts over there, so they're probably good.