Previous books:

2022

• Currently reading: User Friendly - Cliff Kuang (August)

• The Jobs To Be Done Playbook by Jim Kalbach (June)

• Lean UX - 3rd edition by Jeff Gothelf and Joshua Seiden (April)

2021

• A Beautiful Constraint by Mark Barden (October)

• Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres (August)

• Hooked by Nir Eyal (June)

2020

• Just Enough Research by Erika Hall (October)

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (July)

• Designing with the Mind in Mind by Jeff Johnson (May)

2019

• Ends by Joe Macloed (October)

• Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro (June)

• Measuring the User Experience by Tom Tulles and Bill Albert (April)

• Testing with Humans by Giff Constable (February)

2018

• Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull (December 2018)

• Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places by Jorge Arango (October 2018)

• Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke (August 2018)

• This is Service Design Doing by Marc Stinkdorn,‎ Markus Edgar Hormess , Adam Lawrence ,‎ Jakob Schneider (June 2018)

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows (April 2018)

• 100 things every designer needs to know about people by Susan Weinschenky (February 2018)

2017

• Presto Sketching: The Magic of Simple Drawing for Brilliant Product Thinking and Design by Ben Crothers (December 2017)

• No Interface by Golden Krishna (October 2017)

• In honor of UX Australia, we're reading a collection of articles by Mike Monteiro: 1, 2, 3, and 4 (August 2017)

• Change by Design: How Design Thinking transforms organisations and inspires innovation by Tim Brown (June 2017)

• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future by Kevin Kelly (April 2017)

• Predictably Irrational: The hidden forces that shape our decisions by Dan Ariely (February 2017)

2016

• Liminal Thinking: Create the change you want by changing the way you think – by Dave Gray (December 2016)

• Just enough research by Erika Hall (October 2016)

• Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen (August 2016)

• Design for Real Life by Eric Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher (June 2016)

• Articulating Design Decisions by Tom Greever (April 2016)

• Hooked by Nir Eyal (February 2016)

2015

• Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull (December 2015)

• Service Design by Andy Polaine, Ben Reason, and Lavrans Lovlie (October 2015)

• Managing Chaos by Lisa Welchman (August 2015)

• Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman (June -2015)

• Practical Empathy by Indy Young (April 2015) - Nhung Nguyen review

• A Practical Guide to Information Architecture by Donna Spencer (February 2015)

2014 and earlier

• Design for kids - by Debra Levin Gelman (December 2014)

• Designing Together by Dan M Brown (October 2014) - Elle Geraghty review

• Usable Usability by Eric Reiss (August 2014)

• Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman (June 2014)

• Designing for behaviour change - by Stephen Wendel (April 14)

• The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide by Leah Buley (February 2014) - Justin Tauber review

• Microinteractions by Dan Saffer (December 2013)

• Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design by Mark Kuniavsky (October 2013)

• Interviewing Users by Steve Portigal (August 2013)

• Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden (June 2013)

• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein (April 2013)

• Agile Experience Design - by Lindsay Ratcliffe and Marc McNiell (February 2013)

• Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students, by Ellen Lupton (December 2012)

• Content Strategy for the web by Kristina Halverson (October 2012)

• Playful Design by John Ferrara (August 2012)

• Mobile First" by Luke Wroblewski (June 2012)

• Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design by Giles Colbourne (April 2012)

• Seductive Interaction Design by Stephen Anderson (Feb 2012)

• 100 things every designer needs to know about people, by Susan Weinschenk (Dec 2011)

• The Paradox of Choice : Why Less is More by Barry Schwartz (Oct 2011)

• This is Service Design Thinking by Jakob Schneider (August 2011)

• Mobile Design and development by Brian Fling (June 2011)

• Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Katrina Holden and Jill Butler (April 2011)

• Undercover User Experience Design by Cennydd Bowles and James Box (Feb 2011)

• Change by Design by Tim Brown (Dec 2010)

• Storytelling for User Experience by Whitney Quesenbery and Kevin Brooks. (October 2010)

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (August 2010)

• Prototyping: A Practitioners guide to prototyping by Todd Zaki Warfel (June 2010)

• Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug (April 2010)

• The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda (Feb 2010)

• Thoughts on Interaction Design by John Kolko (December 2009)

• Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski (October 2009)

• Glut by Alex Wright (August 2009)

• Subject to Change Adaptive Path (June 2009)

• Designing the Social Web, by Joshua Porter (April 2009)

• Sketching User Experiences: Getting the right design and the design right, by Bill Buxton (February 2009)

Books to consider for the future:

• User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product - by Jeff Patton

• Value Proposition Design by Alex Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Greg Bernarda, Alan Smith

• Designing Multi-Device Experiences - by Michal Levin

• Success by Design by David Sherwin

• Just Enough Research By Erika Hall

• Design is a Job by Mike Moneiro

• The visual display of quantitative information by Edward Tufte

• Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules by Jeff Johnson

• Neuro Design: What Makes Them Click? by Susan Weinschenk

• Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators by Clay Shirky

• Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug (revisited)

• A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandle

• Ambient Findability by Peter Morville

• Communicating Design by Dan Brown

• The Design of Future Things, by Don Norman

• Design Culture: An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design by Steven Heller

• Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design by Jenifer Tidwell

• About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper

• Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences by Steve Diller

• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

• The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam

• Designing and Engineering Time: The psychology of time perception in software by Steven Seow

• Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li

• Confessions of an Ad Man by David Ogilvy

• Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson

• Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil

• Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design by Whitney Quesenbery and Kevin Brooks

• Even more suggestions :)

(If you have other thoughts on possible books to add to this list, please let Mike, Ivy or Le know.)