Anthropocene

• Energy and Civilization Vaclav Smil
• Energy Transitions Vaclav Smil
• Growth Vaclav Smil
• Grand Transitions Vaclav Smil
• Harvesting the Biosphere Vaclav Smil
• Feeding the World Vaclav Smil
• Prime Movers of Globalization Vaclav Smil
• Creating the Twentieth Century Vaclav Smil
• Transforming the Twentieth Century Vaclav Smil
• The Drawdown Paul Hawken
• Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality Pope Francis
• Whole Earth Discipline Stewart Brand
• Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood Various
• A Case for Climate Engineering David Keith

Software

• Designing an Internet David D. Clark
• Weaving the Web Tim Berners-Lee
• Tools for Thought Howard Rheingold
• Evolutionary Design by Computers Peter J. Bentley, Ed.
• Creative Evolutionary Systems Peter J. Bentley, Ed.
• Working in Public Nadia Eghbal
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Richard W. Hamming
• The Humane Interface Jef Raskin
• Designing Interactions Bill Moggeridge
• Everyware Adam Greenfield

Systems

• Thinking in Systems Donella Meadows
• Complexity: a Guided Tour Melanie Mitchell
• Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned Stanley, Lehman
• The Origins of Wealth Eric Beinhocker
• Signals and Boundaries John Henry Holland
• Evolution in Four Dimensions Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb
• The Moment of Complexity Mark C. Taylor
• Seeing Like a State James C. Scott
• The Collapse of Complex Societies Joseph Tainter
• How Complex Systems Fail Richard I. Cook, MD
• Normal Accidents Charles Perrow

Risks

• The Collapse of Complex Societies Joseph Tainter
• How Complex Systems Fail Richard I. Cook, MD
• Normal Accidents Charles Perrow
• Global Catastrophic Risks Nick Bostrum
• Global Catastrophies and Trends Vaclav Smil
• Superintelligence Nick Bostrum

Strategy

• The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton Christensen
• The Innovator's Solution Clayton Christensen
• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital Carlota Perez
• The Entrepreneurial State Mariana Mazzucato
• The DARPA Model Bonvillian, van Atta, Windham, Ed.
• Scenario Planning Mats Lindgren, Hans Bandhold
• Strategic Reframing Rafael Ramírez, Angela Wilkinson
• Learning from the Future Liam Fahey, Robert Randall
• The Art of the Long View Peter Schwartz
• Business Model Generation Alexander Osterwalder,‎ Yves Pigneur
• Lean UX Jeff Gothelf, Shosh Seiden
• Running Lean Ash Murya

How did we get to now?

• A Secular Age Charles Taylor
• Seeing Like a State James C. Scott
• The Origins of Political Order Francis Fukuyama
• Political Order and Political Decay Francis Fukuyama
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Max Weber
• Extrastatecraft Keller Easterling
• The Mystery of Capital Hernando de Soto Polar
• The World of Yesterday Stefan Zweig
• Energy and Civilization Vaclav Smil
• Grand Transitions Vaclav Smil
• Prime Movers of Globalization Vaclav Smil
• Creating the Twentieth Century Vaclav Smil
• Transforming the Twentieth Century Vaclav Smil

Philosophy/Ethics

• A Secular Age Charles Taylor
• Finite and Infinite Games James Carse
• The Religious Case Against Belief James Carse
• Pensees Blaise Pascal
• Tools for Conviviality Ivan Illich
• The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt
• The Human Condition Hannah Arendt
• The Periodic Table Primo Levi
• Survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi
• The Sunflower Simon Wiesenthal
• The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Story of My Experiments with Truth Mahatma Gandhi
• Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl
• The Courage to Be Paul Tillich
• On the Shortness of Life Seneca
• The Enchiridion Epictetus
• To Have or to Be Erich Fromm
• Escape from Freedom Erich Fromm
• Identity and Violence Amartya Sen

Design

• A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander
• Rules of Play Salen, Zimmerman
• The Art of Game Design Jesse Schell
• Thing from the Future Situation Lab
• Understanding Comics Scott McCloud
• Design Cybernetics Fischer, Herr, Ed.
• Universal Principles of Design Lidwell, Holden, Butler
• Universal Methods of Design Martin, Hanington
• Designing Interactions Bill Moggeridge
• Designing and Engineering Time Steven Seow Ph.D.
• Designing with the Mind in Mind Jeff Johnson
• Graphic Design: The New Basics Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Cole Phillips
• IDEO Method Cards IDEO
• Making and Breaking the Grid Timothy Samara
• Notes on the Synthesis of Form Christopher Alexander
• The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid Oliver Byrne
• The Elements of Typographic Style Robert Bringhurst
• The Medium is the Massage Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
• The Field Study Handbook Jan Chipchase
• Design with the Other 90%: Cities Cynthia E. Smith
• Design Like You Give a Damn Kate Stohr,‎ Cameron Sinclair
• Design Revolution Emily Pilloton

Form/Space

• A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander
• Architecture: Form, Space, and Order Francis D. K. Ching
• Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice Bailey, Mike
• Conditional Design Anthony di Mari
• Operative Design Anthony di Mari, Nora Yoo
• Parametric Design for Architecture Jabi, Wassim
• Real Time Rendering Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines
• Siteless François Blanciak
• Digital Fabrications Lisa Iwamoto
• Design Drawing Francis D. K. Ching

Sci-fi

• Aurora Kim Stanley Robinson
• Invisible Cities Italo Calvino
• A Canticle for Lebowitz Walter M. Miller Jr.
• Hard to Be a God Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• Rainbows End Vernor Vinge
• Roadside Picnic Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• The Peripheral William Gibson

Literature/Poetry

• Beowulf Seamus Heaney
• The Odyssey Emily Wilson
• Denise Levertov, Collected Works Denise Levertov
• Silence Shusaku Endo
• The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
• Leaves of Grass (and other works) Walt Whitman
• Grapefruit Yoko Ono

Biography

• Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson
• Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson
• Three Worlds Gone Mad Robert Young Pelton

Technical

• Robotics Primer Maja J. Mataric, PhD
• Concrete Mathematics Graham, Knuth, Patashnik
• Flow Based Programming J. Paul Morrison
• Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice Bailey, Mike
• Game Programming Patterns Robert Nystrom
• Real Time Rendering Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines
• The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Sussman, Abelson
• How to Design Programs Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi
• Procedural Generation in Game Design Tanya X. Short

Reference

• Machinery's Handbook Oberg, Erik & Jones, Franklin D.
• Making It Chris Lefteri
• Pocket Ref Thomas J. Glover

Backlog

• An Introduction to Cybernetics W. Ross Ashby
• Radical Markets Eric Posner, Glen Weyl
• Mindstorms Seymour Papert
• The Stack Bejamin Bratton
• A Thousand Plateaus Deleuze, Guattari
• Deep Learning Ian Goodfellow, Yaoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
• Our Posthuman Future Francis Fukuyama
• The Society of Mind Marvin Minsky
• The Hardware Startup Renee DiResta
• Art as Experience John Dewey
• Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation Jencks, Charles, Silver, Nathan
• The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn
• Deep History Andrew Shryock, Daniel Smail