Here are books I heard mentioned at the 2012 IA Summit, in no particular order:
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
- Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld
- Ambient Findability by Peter Morville
- Search Patterns by Peter Morville
- Handbook of Usability Testing by Jeffrey Rubin and Dana Chisnell
- Content Strategy at Work by Margot Bloomstein
- Communicating Design by Dan M. Brown
- Pervasive Information Architecture by Andrea Resmini
- How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
- The Power of a Positive No by William Ury
- Bargaining for Advantage by G. Richard Shell
- Getting More by Stuart Diamond
- Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
- What’s Mine Is Yours by Rachel Botsman
- Gamestorming by Dave Gray
- Visual Meetings by David Sibbet
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de de Monchaux
- Emotional Design by Donald A. Norman