Alan Kay has a great list of recommended reading: http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
It's very broad by comparison with most lists of this nature. Here is a HN discussion of Kay's list: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=664324
Bookmarked this list the first time I saw it on HN seven years ago. I have been slowly working my way through it, with some personal curation, ever since.
Some of my favorites:
Conscientious Objections
Freedom and Culture
Visual Thinking
Notes on a Synthesis of Form
The Character of Physical Law
and anything Tufte
Here is the old post, with some good discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=664324
Alan Kay has a great list of recommended reading: http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
It's very broad by comparison with most lists of this nature. Here is a HN discussion of Kay's list: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=664324