Debt: The First 5000 Years 

David Graeber

Designing Design

Kenya Hara 

Designing News

Francesco Franchi

Drunk Tank Pink

Adam Alter

Object-Oriented Ontology

Graham Harman

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Word by Word

Kory Stamper

Design-Oriented Reads:

• Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by Indi Young

• Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World? by Eugene Cho

• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson 

• Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams by James Kalbach

• Calm Technology: Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Design by Amber Cas

• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Best Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott

• Brutally Honest by Emily Ruth Cohen

• The Face of Human Rights by Walter Kalin, Lars Muller

• Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat

• Design Like You Give a Damn: Building Change from the Ground Up by Kate Stohr, Cameron Sinclair

• The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication by Ruben Pater

• Just Design: Socially Conscious Design for Critical Causes by Christopher Simmons 

• The Face of Human Rights by Walter Kalin, Lars Muller, Judith Wyttenbach

• Validating Product Ideas: Through Lean User Research Paperback by Tomer Sharon

• Service Design: From Insight to Implementation Paperback by Andy Polaine 

• Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity Paperback by Chris Risdon 

• Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation by Ezio Manzini 

• Remote Research:  Real Users, Real Time, Real Research by Nate Bolt & Tony Tulathimutte

• Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal

• Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People by Christopher Noessel

• Meeting Design: For Managers, Makers, and Everyone by Kevin M. Hoffman

• Managing Chaos: Digital Governance by Design by Lisa Welchman

• Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by Indi Young

• The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide by Leah Buley

• Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by Indi Young

• Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change by Amy Bucher

• Figure It Out: Getting from Information to Understanding by Stephen Anderson & Karl Fast

• Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places by Jorge Arango

• Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience by Michael J. Metts & Andy Welfle

• Build Better Products: A Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products by Laura Klein

• Blind Spot: Illuminating the Hidden Value of Business by Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff & Sean Saube