If you’re in the game industry, Ernest Adams has made a list of 50 books you should read. It’s at Next-Gen.
It’s an excellent list – OK, so Half-Real is on it – lots of breadth, so many things to go into.
For design, I really would put Tracy Fullerton’s (et.al.) Game Design Workshop on the list though.
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My name is Jesper Juul, and I am a Ludologist [researcher of the design, meaning, culture, and politics of games]. This is my blog on game research and other important things.
He even criticises A Theory of Fun which a lot of designers love, despite it spending very little time on the actual issues of fun and seeming to be nothing more than a vehicle for the author’s opinions relating to culture and art rather than fun. So it’s not just a list, but a list of stuff he has read!