Ask HN: What book is considered the bible of your field/industry?

Godel Escher Bach is fairly bible-ish if you ask me

Comprehensive, concise, and beautifully written.

This book is amazing and still holds up today, for the most part.

This is exactly the kind of book I had in mind when I posted the question. It's scary how often I think about it, especially when going through doors.

Don Norman - The Design of Everyday Things

The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks for tech management.

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth is probably the closest to an actual bible for computer scientists - hardly anybody's read it all the way through, people quote bits of it out of context for their own ends and it mostly sits on shelves looking impressive while gathering dust.

Polya's "How to Solve It" is a strong contender

It's like the Bible in that I seem to learn something new on every read through, and it's fairly quick to do so

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by the "Gang of Four" for OOP software engineering.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

The Prince might be more apropos.

it's not a textbook, it's a reference book. So it's very hard to learn electronics by reading it.

The Art of electronics by Hill & Horowitz for electronics