The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan. Well, it's a better science book than the Canon was - it's from a real scientist and a real communicator.
Put together by his widow from the notes and transcripts of a lecture series Sagan did in Scotland, it has an over-ambitious title (the lectures were given in Glasgow in the same place where William James gave the lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience ).
It's a good run-through of relations between science and religion in the 1980s and, for me, shows just how much better things could be if they weren't so polarised.
However, it is slightly dated, and suffers from the fact that it is lecture notes - not a "proper" book.
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