My current design book library, expanding pretty much every week, is listed below. Through these books, I've found both design and life inspiration.
Logo Modernism. Jens Muller and R. Roger Remington
Things I Have Learned. Sagmeister
Life Style. Bruce Mau
History of Graphic Design. Phil Meggs
Pretty Much Everything. Aaron Draplin
An Eames Anthology. Daniel Ostroff
How to. Michael Beirut
The Process is the Inspiration. House Industries
S, M, L, XL. Rem Koolhaas. Bruce Mau
The Visual History of Type. Paul McNeil.
Grid Systems in Graphic Design. Josef Müller-Brockmann
A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design. Chip Kidd
Designing Brand Identity. Alina Wheeler
Making and Breaking the Grid. Timothy Samara
Min: The new simplicty in graphic design. Stuart Tolley
Man in the Brown Suit. Henry Dreyfuss
The SwordMaster in 3DS Max and Zbrush. 3DMasterclass
Learn to Code Now. SuperHi
Thinking with Type. Ellen Lupton
The Graphic Design Idea Book. Gail Anderson and Steven Heller
Case Study Houses. Elizabeth Smith
Bauhaus. Magdalena Droste
Invisible Cities. Italo Calvino
Beauty. Sagmeister & Walsh
Drawing and Redrawing. Max Bill
White. Kenya Hara
100 Whites. Kenya Hara
Ex-formation. Kenya Hara
A Dictionary of Color Combinations. Seigensha
Touch Me! Eichinger / Tröger
Parkanyi: Ars Poetica. Parkanyi
The Designer’s Dictionary of Color. Sean Adams
The Designer’s Dictionary of Type. Sean Adams
Project Japan Metabolism Talks. Rem Koolhaas / Hans Orbist
Designing Design. Kenya Hara
Jan Tschichold and the New Typography. Stirton
Design Manual for the Swiss Federal Railways. Müller-Brockmann
Designing Japan. Kenya Hara
In Praise of Shadows. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Subtle. The 47th Takeo Paper Show. Kenya Hara
The Field Guide To Human Centered Design. Design Kit
A Designer’s Research Manual. Jenn + Ken Visocky O’Grady
The Poetics of Space. Gaston Bachelard
How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul. Adrian Shaughnessy
Graphic Design Manual. Armin Hofmann
Universal Methods of Design. Bella Martin
Symbol. Angus Hyland and Steven Bateman
The Vignelli Canon. Massimo Vignelli
How Design Makes Us Think and Feel and Do Things. Sean Adams
Logo Modernism. Jens Muller and R. Roger Remington
Things I Have Learned. Sagmeister
Life Style. Bruce Mau
History of Graphic Design. Phil Meggs
Pretty Much Everything. Aaron Draplin
An Eames Anthology. Daniel Ostroff
How to. Michael Beirut
The Process is the Inspiration. House Industries
S, M, L, XL. Rem Koolhaas. Bruce Mau
The Visual History of Type. Paul McNeil.
Grid Systems in Graphic Design. Josef Müller-Brockmann
A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design. Chip Kidd
Designing Brand Identity. Alina Wheeler
Making and Breaking the Grid. Timothy Samara
Min: The new simplicty in graphic design. Stuart Tolley
Man in the Brown Suit. Henry Dreyfuss
The SwordMaster in 3DS Max and Zbrush. 3DMasterclass
Learn to Code Now. SuperHi
Thinking with Type. Ellen Lupton
The Graphic Design Idea Book. Gail Anderson and Steven Heller
Case Study Houses. Elizabeth Smith
Bauhaus. Magdalena Droste
Invisible Cities. Italo Calvino
Beauty. Sagmeister & Walsh
Drawing and Redrawing. Max Bill
White. Kenya Hara
100 Whites. Kenya Hara
Ex-formation. Kenya Hara
A Dictionary of Color Combinations. Seigensha
Touch Me! Eichinger / Tröger
Parkanyi: Ars Poetica. Parkanyi
The Designer’s Dictionary of Color. Sean Adams
The Designer’s Dictionary of Type. Sean Adams
Project Japan Metabolism Talks. Rem Koolhaas / Hans Orbist
Designing Design. Kenya Hara
Jan Tschichold and the New Typography. Stirton
Design Manual for the Swiss Federal Railways. Müller-Brockmann
Designing Japan. Kenya Hara
In Praise of Shadows. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Subtle. The 47th Takeo Paper Show. Kenya Hara
The Field Guide To Human Centered Design. Design Kit
A Designer’s Research Manual. Jenn + Ken Visocky O’Grady
The Poetics of Space. Gaston Bachelard
How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul. Adrian Shaughnessy
Graphic Design Manual. Armin Hofmann
Universal Methods of Design. Bella Martin
Symbol. Angus Hyland and Steven Bateman
The Vignelli Canon. Massimo Vignelli
How Design Makes Us Think and Feel and Do Things. Sean Adams
