I know this is a little late for Christmas, but nevertheless, I have a few (some of which have already been mentioned) books I've read that I've quite enjoyed. For the sake of brevity, I'll let you search the titles on Amazon for reviews and better descriptions.
Title: Everything & More: A Compact History of Infinity
Author: David Foster Wallace
Title: The Mathematical Experience
Author(s): Philip J Davis & Reuben Hersh
Title: One, Two, Three...Infinity
Author: George Gamow
Title: Pi in the Sky
Author: John D. Barrow
Title: Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
Author: John Derbyshire
Title: Strength in Numbers
Author: Sherman Stein
Title: e: The Story of a Number
Author: Eli Maor
Title: A History of Pi
Author: Petr Beckmann
Title: Nature's Numbers
Author: Ian Stewart
Title: Mathematics: The Science of Patterns
Author: Keith Devlin
Title: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Author: Charles Seife
Title: How to Enjoy Calculus
Author: Eli S. Pine
(Not really a "popular" book, per se', but still pretty good)
Title: How to Think About Weird Things
Author(s): Theodore Schick & Lewis Vaughn
(Not really about mathematics, but not so far out of the way that you wouldn't enjoy it if you also enjoy mathematics)
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