The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from The Periodic Table of the Elements.
I'm only a hundred pages or so into this chemical stampede of lunacy, but I really have been fascinated with so many tales of scientific mischief which stemmed from all of the elements! A very dry and nerdish book, certainly, but pretty educational and entertaining if you can deal with that.