One of the contributors to the CHI-Web mailing list (CHI= Computer-Human Interaction) recently took a survey of contributors on the best UCD/Usability books. These are the results, in no particular order:
The Design (Psychology) of Everyday Things – Don Norman [Amazon]
Usability Engineering – Jakob Nielsen [Amazon]
Usability Engineering Lifecycle – Mayhew [Amazon]
Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug [Amazon]
User and Task Analysis for Interface Design – Hackos and Redish [Amazon]
Designing Visual Interfaces – Mullet and Sanos [Amazon]
Tog on Software Design – Bruce Tognazzini [Amazon]
Usability Inspection Methods – Jakob Nielsen [Amazon]
About Face: Essentials of User-Interface Design – Alan Cooper [Amazon]
Designing the User Interface – Ben Shneiderman [Amazon]
Faces – Donald Norman [Can't find any info]
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum – Alan Cooper [Amazon]
The Humane Interface – Jef Raskin [Amazon]
I would add to these the three books by Edward Tufte:
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information [Amazon]
Visual Explanations [Amazon]
Envisioning Information [Amazon]
Any other suggestions?