 | Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
Buy used from: $8.83 Absolutely the most valueable web design book I've ever read.
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 | The Inmates Are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper
Buy used from: $1.38 Read it in college because I had to... I refer to it often now because it's brilliant. Deals with all kinds of nterface design snafus, and designers/developers should read it with an open mind.
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 | Web Sites that Work by Roger Black
Buy used from: $0.01 A few years old, but basic concepts apply in a variety of design arenas. He's one of the grandfathers of design.
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 | designing web graphics.4 (4th Edition) by Linda Weinman
Buy used from: $1.79 Graphics goddess Lynda Wienmann must do nothing but sit at a computer and then do nothing but write about it.
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 | Layout Index: Brochure, Web Design, Poster, Flyer, Advertising, Page Layout, Newsletter, Stationery Index by Jim Krause
Buy new: $15.63 / Used from: $4.40 It hurts my head to think of being without this book... ow.... oww...
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 | The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type by Alexander W. White
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $7.00 White takes you back to basics with a focus on, whodathunk, the elements of design and a sepcial emphasis on space and (for goodness' sake) leaving BLANK parts on a page occasionally.
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 | Dreamweaver MX Magic (Landmark) by Brad Halstead
Buy used from: $0.01 I don't have THIS one yet, but the 'magic' books are awesome and so pretty, they even make ok coffe table books... just to let your guests confirm your nerdiness.
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