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
Inside Steve’s Brain
Leander Kahney
Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy
Manuel De Landa
The Interpretation of Cultures
Clifford Geertz
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
An Intimate History of Humanity
Theodore Zeldin
Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci
Paul Valéry
The Invention of Solitude
Paul Auster
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be
Paul Arden
James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher
Robert H. Eisenman
Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc)
Joseph Delteil
Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Amy Dockser Marcus
The Journalist and the Murderer
Janet Malcolm
Jung’s Psychology and Tibetan Wisdom
Radmila Moacanin
Just Gaming
Jean-François Lyotard et al.
King Solomon’s Ring
Konrad Lorenz
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
La Passe Imaginaire (The Imaginary Pass)
Grisélidis Grisélidis
La Sparizione dell’Arte (The Disappearance of Art)
Jean Baudrillard
Land of The Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia
Suzanne Massie
L’art du roman (The Art of the Novel)
Milan Kundera
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-1940
William Manchester
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
William Manchester
The Last Place on Earth
Roland Huntford
L’autre par lui-même (The Other by Itself)
Jean Baudrillard
Le vin en question (Wine in Question)
Jules Chauvet
Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat
Left Handed et al.
L’esperienza musicale e l’estetica
Massimo Mila