Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?

Gödel, Escher, Bach is an artistic appetizer over the stimulating world of structures, - not a manual.

"How to Make Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie (1936)

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman for design in any aspect.

This was the exact book I came to suggest.

books like a) Code by Charles Petzold

I randomly picked Code off a library shelf

Code by Petzold is 100% my choice as well. It is an incredibly good book to describe not just code but computing and ultimately computing machines.

this book

the Selfish Gene. this book can attract people who want understand how creatures work

Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine for computer engineering.

"Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert B. Cialdini (1984)

The Phoenix Project is a fiction novel

Don’t Make Me Think, by Steve Krug.

The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll.

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Randall Bryant and others.

Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay