On: Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?

[DarrenStuart]

designing the obvious - a common sense approach to web application design by Robert Hoekman Jr

The New New Thing

Masters of Doom (story of id software, great story)

Smart Start-ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities

steven levy's Hackers and crypto also for the history.

[zenlinux → DarrenStuart]

I love Designing the Obvious - it's a great book on interface design and usability, and focuses on web applications. Very relevant to this community.