In 2005 I discovered reading for myself, rather then doing it because teachers told me too. Here's a list of the books I've read since then.
(Further work to follow)
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Bruce Campbell _ Confessions of a B movie Actor
Dan Brown_Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown_Angels & Demons
Kevin Smith_Silent Bob speaks
Jake Kennedy_Joy Division: The Making of Unknown Pleasures
Josh Berger_100 Habits of a Graphic Designer
Wally Ollins_On Brand
Dan Brown_Digital Fortress
John Baxter_Robert De Niro: A Biography
Penelope Lively_The Photograph
Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace_Are you Dave Gorman?
Dan Brown_Deception Point
Anthony Burgess_Clockwork Orange
Anthony Kiedis_Scar Tissue
Luke Rhinehart_The Dice Man
Truman Capote_In Cold Blood
George Orwell_Down and Out in Paris and London
Rick Poynor_Design Without Boundaries
Mark Haddon_The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Chuck Palahniuk_Fight Club
Mary Clarke_A Drink with Shane Macgowan
Louis Sachar_Holes
Frank McCourt_Angela's Ashes
Paul Arden_It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be
John Berger_Ways of Seeing
Tom Waits_Innocent While You Dream
Anne Frank_The Diary of Anne Frank
Alexander W. White_The Elements of Graphic Design
Danny Wallace_Join Me
Larry Rhinehart_Search For the Dice Man
Johnny Green & Garry Barker_A Riot of Our Own: Day and Night with The Clash
John Dickie_Cosa Nostra
Dave Gorman_My Googlewack Adventure
George Orwell_1984
Bret Easton Ellis_Less Than Zero
Malachy McCourt_A Monk Swimming
Bret Easton Ellis_Lunar Park
Roddy Doyle_The Woman Who Walked into Doors
Ian McEwan_Atonement
Erik Spiekermann_Stop Stealing Sheep
Harper Lee_To Kill a Mockingbird
Phil Baines_Type & Typography
Jan Tschicold_A New Typography
Adrian Shaughnessy_How To be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
Milan Kundrea_The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Charles Bukowski_Women
Gregory David Roberts_Shantaram
Neil Strauss_The Game
Lucienne Rogers_The Designer and the Grid
Robert Bringhurst_Elements of Typographic Style
Zak Kyes & Mark Owens_Forms of Inquiry
Derek Birdsall_Notes on Book Design
Deyan Sudjic_The Language of Things
Stuart Sim_The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism
Yann Martel_The Life of Pi
Beryl McAlhone_A Smile in the Mind
Norman Potter_What is a Designer
Ken Kesey_One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
J.G.Salinger_Catcher in the Rye
Josef Muller-Brockmann_Grid Systems
Robin Kinross & Jost Hochuli_Designing Books
Truman Capote_Breakfast at Tiffany's
George Orwell_Bookshops vs Cigarettes
Mark Fisher_Capitalist Realism
Bruno Munari_Design as Art
Marshall McLuhan_Medium and the Message
J.G.Salinger_Franny & Zooey
Amy Spencer_DIY the Rise of Lo-fi Culture
Mark Rowlands_Fame
Jack Kerouac_On the Road
Gary Cox_How to be an Existentialist
Joseph Grigely & Hans Ulrich Obrist_Exhibition Prosthetics
IASPIS_The Reader
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster_TH.2058
Hubert Selby Jr_Last Exit to Brooklyn
George Orwell_Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Hunter S.Thompson_Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Peter Greenhalgh_Modernism in Design
Vice_News, Nudity & Nonsense
George Orwell_Why I Write
Charles Dickens_Hard Times
Pete Brown_A Man Walks into a Pub
Rick Poynor_No More Rules
Ken Robinson_The Element
Danny Meyer_Setting the Table
Pete Brown_Hops & Glory
Charles Bukowski_Ham on Rye
Charles Bukowski_Factotum
Yevgeny Zamyatin_We
J.D.Salinger_For Esmé with Love and Squalor
Gandhi_An Autobiography
Richard Brautigan_Trout Fishing in America, The Pill vs The Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar
Frank McCourt_Tis'
Dick Pountain & David Robbins_Cool Rules
Jonathan Safran Foer_Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Scott F.Fitzgerald_The Great Gatsby
Steven Bayley & Roger Mavity_Life's a Pitch
Arne Bellstorf_Baby's in Black
J.G.Ballard_Millenium People
Bret Easton Ellis_Glamorama