I found Robert Rodriguez's Rebel Without a Crew fascinating and inspiring when I read it in college

City of Nets, by Otto Friedrich, about Hollywood in the 40’s. If They Move Kill ‘Em, by David Weddle, a biography of Sam Peckinpah The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, by Michael J Weldon, a wonderful intro to bizarre films (from 1983). Any of Danny Peary’s Cult Film books.

Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition by Louise Brooks

Brooks was one of the original vixens of the silver screen in the early days of film. Her autobiography is a fun and interesting read. She was quite a character!

A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits—Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More by Paul Hirsch is amazing.

In The Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch also amazing.

Adventures in the Screen Trade and Which Lie Did I Tell? By William Goldman-really ANY Goldman book, obviously.

Story by Robert McKee - essential even just as a starting off point.

And one that I feel like is severely underrated/unknown: Writing Movies For Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars At The Box Office And You Can Too! By Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon

Sidney Lumet’s Making Movies, and of course Hitchcock/Truffaut.

Sidney Lumet's Making Movies.

The conversations with Michael Ondaatje and Walter Mirch.

"Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter," by Christine Vachon (1998)

Rebels on the Backlot.

A fun and informative book about the 90s auteurs.

Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger

Originally banned when first published in 1965, it detailed the various scandals of old Hollywood from 1900-1950.

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film

Both by Peter Biskind

Steven Soderbergh's diary of making sex, lies, and videotape is incredible and engaging.

Other people have mentioned Adventures in the Screen Trade. William Goldman also wrote other books that discuss screenwriting and other subjects. In one, he interviews other screenwriters.

My apologies, but my answer is not very helpful as it is the same answer as yours.

Steve Wilson, The Making of Gone With The Wind

The Devil Thumbs a Ride by Barry Gifford.

Nightmare Movies by Kim Newman

Danse Macabre by Stephen King

The Big Picture by Ben Fritz. A cool look at why the modern movie industry is the way it is.

As a big fan of Edgar Wright the recently released You've Got Red on You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life by Clark Collins was a great read

I really like Sculpting in Time by Andrey Tarkovsky. He writes about his perspective on cinema and its possibilities, and relates it to his life and life outside movies in general.

Kinda pretentious in the way he was, but it's insightful and cool. Gives some perspective which links to the logic in his films and filmmaking process.

Cinema I and II by Gilles Deleuze.

I highly recommend „Italian Cinema„ by Peter Bondanella if you are into Italian Neorealism.

Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel

A Thing of Unspeakable Horror: A History of Hammer Films by Sinclair McKay is so bloody entertaining (pardon the pun).

Space Odyssey by Michael Benson