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
Beyond Geography
Frederick Turner
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Black Elk Speaks
John Neihardt
Blood and Oil in the Orient
Essad Bey
Blood, Bones, & Butter
Gabrielle Hamilton
The Blue Sweater
Jacqueline Novogratz
Blueprint for a Green Planet
John Seymour et al.
Book of Common Prayer
Church of England
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi
The Book of Games
Peter Arnold
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Alan Watts
The Bottom Billion
Paul Collier
The Bottom of the Harbor
Joseph Mitchell
The Brain That Changes Itself
Norman Doidge
Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley
Breathing on Your Own
Richard Kehl
Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light
Jane Brox
Brother Blue: A Narrative Portrait of Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill aka Brother Blue
Warren Lehrer
Bully for Brontosaurus
Stephen Jay Gould
Bureaucrats: How to Annoy Them
R. T. Fishall
Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon
Harvey Kubernik
The Care and Feeding of Ideas
James L. Adams
Charlie: A Narrative Portrait of Charlie Lang
Warren Lehrer
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Ruth Benedict
Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
Claude: A Narrative Portrait of Claude Debs
Warren Lehrer
The Climate Near the Ground
Rudolf Geiger et al.
The Closing of the American Mind
Allan Bloom
The Cloud of Unknowing
Anonymous et al.