Making
- "The Nature of Order" by Christopher Alexander
- "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things" by William McDonough
Meditation
- "Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention" by Ken McCleod
- "Mindfulness in Plain English" by Ven. Henepola Gunaratana, (PDF)
- "Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)" by M.K. Gandhi
Software
- "Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software" by Eric Evans -- also, read the last chapters first
- "Working Effectively With Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers
- "Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models" by Martin Fowler
Honorable Mention
- A New Theory of Urban Design
- Tao Te Ching: a Book About the Way and the Power of the Way
- The Timeless Way of Building
- The Zen Koan as a Means of Attaining Enlightenment
- My Experiments with Truth
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 1Q84 and any other fiction by Haruki Murakami
- Parkinson's Law
- A New Kind of Science