General

• Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
• The power of myth - Joseph Campbell
• The act of creation - Arthur Koestler
• Literary machines - Theodor Holm Nelson
• The sciences of the artificial - Herbert Simon
• The social psychology of organizing - Karl Weick
• Man's search for meaning - Viktor Frankl
• Silent spring - Rachel Carson
• Normal accidents - Charles Perrow
• The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
• Chaos - James Gleick
• The fractal geometry of nature - Benoit Mandelbrot
• Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
• Connections - James Burke
• Guns, germs and steel: The fates of human societies - Jared Diamond
• Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed - Jared Diamond
• The black swan - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
• The wisdom of crowds - James Surowiecki
• Smart mobs - Howard Rheingold
• Leadership and the new science - Margaret Wheatley
• The goal - Eliahu Goldratt
• The holographic universe - Michael Talbot
• The mythical man-month - Fred Brooks
• The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Christopher Locke, et al
• Here comes everybody - Clay Shirky

Science

• Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
• The structure of scientific revolutions - Thomas Kuhn
• The medusa and the snail - Lewis Thomas
• The selfish gene - Richard Dawkins
• The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
• Darwin's dangerous idea - Daniel Dennett
• Consilience - E O Wilson
• Cosmos - Carl Sagan
• A brief history of time - Stephen Hawking
• A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson

Mind/Cognition

• The man who mistook his wife for a hat - Oliver Sacks
• An anthropologist from Mars
• The man who tasted shapes - Richard Cytowic
• Brain rules - John Medina
• Phantoms in the brain - Vilayanur Ramachandran
• Frames of mind - Howard Gardner
• The society of mind - Marvin Minsky
• Emotional intelligence - Daniel Goleman
• How the mind works - Steven Pinker
• The stuff of thought - Steven Pinker
• Understanding computers and cognition - Terry Winograd & Fernando Flores
• Mindstorms - Seymour Papert
• Computer power and human reason - Joseph Weizenbaum
• A whole new mind - Daniel Pink

Language

• Metaphors we live by - George Lakoff and Mark Johnston
• Women, fire and dangerous things - George Lakof
• Language, Thought and Reality - Benjamin Whorf
• Speech Acts - John Searle

Behaviour & Personality

• Games people play - Eric Berne
• I'm OK - you're OK - Thomas Harris

Education

• Deschooling society - Ivan Illich
• Multiple intelligences - Howard Gardner
• Turning learning right side up - Russell Ackoff & Daniel Greenberg
• Disrupting class - Clayton Christensen

Systems

• Systems thinking - C West Churchman
• General systems theory - Ludwig von Bertalanffy
• Ackoff's best - His classic writings on management - Russell Ackoff
• The fifth discipline - Peter M Senge
• Vehicles: Experiments in synthetic psychology - Valentino Braitenberg
• Learning for action - Peter Checkland & John Poulter
• Systems thinking, systems practice - Peter Checkland
• An introduction to general systems thinking - Gerald Weinberg

Networks, Complexity, Small Worlds, Emergence

• Nexus - Mark Buchanan
• Linked - Albert-László Barabási
• Sync - Steven Strogatz
• Six Degrees: - Duncan J. Watts
• Small Worlds - Duncan J. Watts
• For the intellectually adventurous: A new kind of science by Stephen Wolfram; website:http://www.wolframscience.com/
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• Smart Mobs - Howard Rheingold
• The Tipping Point - Malcomn Gladwell
• The Social Life of Information - John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid
• The Laws of the Web - Bernardo A. Huberman
• Small Pieces Loosely Joined - David Weinberger
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• Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
• COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS by Mitchell M. Waldrop
• Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen by Mark Buchanan
• Complexity : Life at the Edge of Chaos by Roger Lewin
• The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture by Mark C. Taylor
• The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex by Harold Morowitz
• Critical Mass - How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball
• Swarm Intelligence by Russell Eberhart, Yuhui Shui and James Kennedy
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• Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence by John H. Holland, 1992
• Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity by John H. Holland, 1993
• Emergence: From Chaos to Order (Helix Books) by John H. Holland, 1996
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• The Origins of Order- Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution by Stuart Kauffman
• At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman 
• Investigations by Stuart Kauffman
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• The Complexity of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Engineering by Steven H. Strogatz

Media

• Understanding media - Marshall McLuhan
• Amusing ourselves to death - Neil Postman

Intellectual Property

• The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in Connected World - Lawrence Lessig
• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity -Lawrence Lessig
• Copyrights and Copywrongs - Siva Vaidyanathan
• The Cathedral and the bazaar - Eric Raymond