The concept of "Lindy books" comes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb's idea of the Lindy Effect—the principle that the longer something non-perishable has existed, the longer it is likely to endure. And this is my curated selection of books that have either proven their timeless worth or demonstrate strong potential to resonate with generations to come.

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

• Maus - Art Spiegelman

• Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

• Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud

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

Science

• The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas S. Kuhn

• Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton

Note: This list will be continuously updated as new books prove their endurance and as older ones maintain their relevance across generations.