Chosen Books

Invited designers and commentators have chosen these as the books that inspire them and that have shaped their worldview or their ideas about design.
480 books
The Beak of the Finch
Jonathan Weiner
The Battle for God
Karen Armstrong
Balfour: The Last Grandee
R.J.Q. Adams
Baedeker’s Rome and Central Italy
Karl Baedeker
The Awakened Self
Lucien Stryk
The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
Autobiography of a Yogi
Parmahansa Yogananda
Au Revoir to All That
Michael Sternberger
The Atomic Age Opens
Pocket Books
The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson
The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton
The Art of Fiction
David Lodge
The Art of Eating
M. F. K. Fisher
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
Jacques Pépin
Applied Grammatology
Gregory Ulmer
Antonio Stradivari
William Henry Hill
Animals Make Us Human
Temple Grandin
Animals in Translation
Temple Grandin et al.
And the Sea Is Never Full
Elie Wiesel
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
Agricola and Germania
Cornelius Tacitus et al.
Agnes’s Jacket
Gail A. Hornstein
The Age of Missing Information
Bill McKibben
Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag
The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith
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