Books

In no particular order, although books I found particularly useful are bolded.

Fundamentals

• The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman

• Don't Make Me Think — Steve Krug

• Design Methods — Amy Ko

• Design and Digital Interfaces — Ben Stopher, Tobias Revell, Eva Verhoeven, and John Fass

UX design

A number of these are big, manual-style textbooks on what goes into design and design processes.

• Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design — Bill Buxton

• A Project Guide to UX Design — Carolyn Chandler and Russ Unger

• The User Experience Team of One — Leah Buley

• Lean UX — Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden

• Designing Interactions — Bill Moggridge

• Interaction Design — Helen Sharp, Jenny Preece, and Yvonne Rogers

• The UX Book — Rex Hartson and Pardha Pyla

• About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design — Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Alan Cooper, Christopher Noessel, and Dave Cronin

• Designing for the Digital Age — Kim Goodwin

• Laws of UX — Jon Yablonski

Visual design & branding

• The Vignelli Canon — Massimo Vignelli

• A New Program for Graphic Design — David Reinfurt

• Thinking With Type — Ellen Lupton

• A Primer of Visual Literacy — Donis A. Dondis

• Designing Brand Identity — Alina Wheeler

• Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design, including the ones in this book — Bob Gill

Getting a design job and growing your career

• Solving Product Design Exercises — Artiom Dashinsky

• Articulating Design Decisions — Tom Greever

• The Path to Senior Product Designer — Artiom Dashinsky

Games and the games industry

• The Gamer's Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design — Celia Hodent

• A Theory of Fun for Game Design — Raph Koster

• Uncertainty in Games — Greg Costikyan

• A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry — Ergin Bulut