Lindy Books
Books that demonstrate the Lindy Effect—the longer they've endured, the longer they'll last
Design & Visual Arts
- Grid Systems in Graphic Design - Josef Müller-Brockmann
- The Elements of Typographic Style - Robert Bringhurst
- Ways of Seeing - John Berger
- A Designer’s Art - Paul Rand
Photography Monographs
- The Americans - Robert Frank
- Camera Lucida - Roland Barthes
- The Decisive Moment - Henri Cartier-Bresson
Graphic Novels
Novels
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
- Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
History & Philosophy
- The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
- Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
- The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
- The Manual for living
Business & Economics
- The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
- Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham
- The Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstein Veblen