Good books?

I'm currently reading "Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things" by Donald A. Norman
It's one of his collection of books including "Emotional Design" and "The Design of Everyday Things"
The book is old (2005) but the sample studied, because I already know them, can be studied more closely and I can compare the feeling I keep of them.
 
I liked the four hour work week.
My favourite book list:
Masters of Doom (the story of ID software during the 1990s when they wrote Wolfenstien, doom and quake)
Ready Player One (just been made into a film by Stephen Spealburg)
The Martian
I also just read the Elon Musk story, great book.
Reply - History of Videogames
Hackers - Stephen Levy - great book on the history of computer programming
The 4 hour body - another good Tim Ferris book
 
I always recommend these two books, regardless of audience, origin or intent...

The Flivver King by Upton Sinclair
Khrushchev's Shoe by Roy Underhill

They are, in no way, associated with technology, computers or programming. But yet, with careful reading and thought, have been the most influential books in my programming career.
 
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM), by Robert M. Pirsig
and much summer like :
Elon Musk: Inventing the Future by Ashlee Vance
 
Every programmer should have a copy of Code Complete: A Practical Handbook Of Software Construction by Steve McConell. The best book I have ever read on how to construct software.
 
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