Nice to see this thread revived, especially as we might all be scrabbling for some good reads
Mike Brookes series of books charting his career through training squadron and test pilot are all to be recommended. Follow Me Through, A Bucket of Sunshine, Trials and Errors and More Testing Times are written with wonderful humility, great humor and where needed, superb detail, particularly on individual aircraft. Once read, passed mine on very quickly on the bay site.
A recent enjoyable read was Skygods by Robert Gandt, which charts the rise and sad demise of Pan Am
For swashbuckling memoirs of fighter pilot action in WW2 and the Vietnam War look no further than Robin Olds - Fighter Pilot. Quite a character and quite a handful for the authorities that had to manage him. One of his many claims to fame, or maybe notoriety, is that he shot down a 109 dead stick after forgetting to manage his fuel after dropping his tanks.