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Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach - read it when I was 14, and I was into music, art and programming, so it blew my mind.

His Sirens of Titan had a huge impact on me as a teen, the first novel I really loved.

The first novel I ever read that really spoke to me 100%, I read it over and over for many months on the school bus. So funny, so touching.

covers most of the maths that pops up continually in programming.

Then Breakfast of Champions.

A lot of great pictures, exerything is explained (and shown) geometrically.

Lakoff & Johnson, Metaphors We Live By - how our language and thoughts are built from a fabric of conceptual metaphors.

Metaphors We Live By - Lakoff/Johnson

Actual titles: Leadership and Self-Deception and Crucial Conversations.

Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1994), an amazing book

Wonderfully written.

Philosophy In The Flesh is about the conceptual metaphors that philosophy is built from.

Philosophy in the Flesh - L/J

Ben Zander, The Art of Possibility - hard to explain, kind of advanced self-help, the magic of changing attitudes, expectations, habits.

The AWK Programming Language (1988)