Bret Victor's Five-Star List

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The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
4,843 members
65 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough
2,083 members
33 reviews
4
2 Members
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
14,916 members
136 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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5
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
1,827 members
27 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Visual Complex Analysis
by Tristan Needham
357 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
9,051 members
96 reviews
4
2 Members
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
27,653 members
407 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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9
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward R. Tufte
5,570 members
60 reviews
½ 4.4
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10
Envisioning Information
by Edward R. Tufte
4,340 members
23 reviews
½ 4.3
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Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
by Edward R. Tufte
3,448 members
16 reviews
½ 4.3
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12
Beautiful Evidence
by Edward R. Tufte
1,944 members
12 reviews
4.2
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13
A History of Graphic Design
by Philip B. Meggs
800 members
2 reviews
4.1
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The Elements of Graphing Data
by William S. Cleveland
184 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
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15
Logic & Design in Art, Science, and Mathematics
by Krome Barratt
79 members
1 review
½ 4.3
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16
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud
5,749 members
107 reviews
½ 4.3
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17
Reinventing Comics
by Scott McCloud
1,233 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
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18
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
by Scott McCloud
1,675 members
20 reviews
4.2
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19
Designing for People
by Henry Dreyfuss
141 members
2 reviews
3.8
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21
About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
by Alan Cooper
370 members
4 reviews
3.9
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22
The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
by Jef Raskin
568 members
7 reviews
3.9
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23
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
by Katie Salen
482 members
5 reviews
4.1
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24
A Theory of Fun for Game Design
by Raph Koster
609 members
13 reviews
3.9
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25
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
by Harold Abelson
1,927 members
19 reviews
½ 4.6
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26
The Little Schemer
by Daniel P. Friedman
728 members
7 reviews
4.2
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27
Hacker's Delight
by Henry S. Warren
556 members
2 reviews
4
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28
The Design and Evolution of C++
by Bjarne Stroustrup
332 members
4 reviews
4.1
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29
Lambda the Ultimate
by Guy Lewis Steele
1 member
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31
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
by Richard W. Hamming
395 members
2 reviews
4.2
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33
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
by Seymour Papert
591 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
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34
How Children Fail
by John Holt
895 members
14 reviews
4.2
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35
How to Survive in Your Native Land
by James Herndon
99 members
4.1
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36
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by Neil Postman
2,158 members
23 reviews
3.9
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37
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
6,435 members
92 reviews
4.1
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38
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
17,196 members
173 reviews
4.2
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39
The Careful Writer
by Theodore M. Bernstein
517 members
3 reviews
4.2
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40
The Mother Tongue
by Bill Bryson
8,410 members
163 reviews
3.9
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42
The World's Greatest Fakebook
by Alfred Publishing
1 member
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43
Watchmen
by Alan Moore
21,021 members
518 reviews
½ 4.3
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44
Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind: Perfect Collection
by Hayao Miyazaki
120 members
1 review
½ 4.7
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45
Fables, Vol. 01: Legends in Exile
by Bill Willingham
4,961 members
167 reviews
4
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Re-Gifters
by Mike Carey
400 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
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