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Here are a few from my current reading list:

Don't Make Me Think

The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

Design for Hackers

Graphic Design School

Thinking With Type

Enjoy! :)

The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher

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It's Not How Good You Are – It's How Good You Want to Be by Paul Arden

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Burn Your Portfolio by Michael Janda

Just recently finished The Design Method and I totally recommend it. A very practical, no-nonsense approach to solving design problems.

Designing Design by Hara Kenya (Creative Director of Muji)

Yes, this has been said by others, but it's my bible really. If nothing else... this.

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design is my goto recommendation.

http://www.designersandbooks.com/

Just dropping this link here.

Personally my favorites (in my lifetime) have been:

Type Matters!

Thinking with Type

Emotional Design

Don't Make Me Think

Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type

50 Shades of Pantone Gray

Bwahaha.

Just recently posted my list in my blog http://blog.repponen.com/blog/2015/1/19/design-books-recommendations

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Some really good links here, thanks everyone. I'd like to contribute with some of my favourites:

http://www.amazon.com/Thoughtful-Interaction-Design-Perspective-Information/dp/0262622092

http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-User-Experience-User-Centered/dp/0735712026

Lots of great suggestions, but surprised nobody suggested The Elements of Typographic Style. Pretty dense, but you'll learn a ton about type. The author covers everything from the space needed for thumbs on a page to how typographic layout mirrors musical composition.

From the ones I've read, the one I loved the most was "The Shape of Design" by Frank Chimero.

Lukas Mathis' Designed for Use comes highly recommended for interaction design. It reads like a case study for Design of Everyday Things applied to software.

http://www.moussepublishing.com/products-page/product/ten-fundamental-questions-of-curating-2/

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Really entertaining book, fantastically typeset.

Not necessarily "about" design or designing per se, but the entire premise of the book is about asking those basic fundamental questions one should be asking in any creative field.

One of the more heavily bookmarked books in my collection :>

There is only one.

*It's Not How Good You Are – It's How Good You Want to Be * by Paul Arden

• Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles of Web Design (Khoi Vinh)
• The Design of Everyday Things (Donald Norman)
• Grid Systems in Graphic Design (Josef Muller-Brockmann)
• Typographie (Emil Ruder)

"Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design", Michael Bierut, total legend.

Design Anarchy completely changed my perception of design for good. Definitely recommend that every designer read it.

Digital History

Designing Interactions

Revolution in the Valley

Inspiration

Lubalin

Manuals 2

Penguin by Design

Corporate Diversity

Grid Systems

If you're a design student, this is a great book. Really encouraging and full of insightful advice. Also, gives you a look at some very talented designers then and now. Loads of funny silly shit too.

I Used to Be a Design Student

Lean UX

Seductive Interaction Design

War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

Don't Make Me Think

User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product

Lean UX

Lean Analytics

Change By Design

Rocket Surgery Made Easy

The Design of Everyday Things