Here are all of the resources mentioned by Deconstruct 2017 speakers, along with who recommended what. Please post a comment if I missed something or have an error!
- Seeing Like a State by James Scott
- Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann (Evan Czaplicki)
- A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (Brian Marick)
- Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans (Brian Marick)
- Educating the Reflective Practitioner by Donald Schön (Brian Marick)
- Conquest of Abundance by Paul Feyerabend (Brian Marick)
- The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dörner (Brian Marick)
- To Mock a Mockingbird by Raymond Smullyan (Chelsea Voss)
- Drawing Theories Apart by David Kaiser (Chelsea Voss)
- Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke (Zach Tellman)
- Elements of Clojure by Zach Tellman (Zach Tellman)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (Zach Tellman)
- The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert Simon (Zach Tellman)
- Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard (Zach Tellman)
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander (Zach Tellman)
- The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution by C.P. Snow (David Nolen)
- Refactoring by Martin Fowler (Arlo Belshee)
- The Pizza Book by Aaron Quint and Michael Bernstein (Michael Bernstein)
- Life a User's Manual by Georges Perec (David Nolen)
- The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis (Evan Czaplicki)
- Ways of Seeing by John Berger (Michael Bernstein)
- Proof of correctness of data representations by C.A.R. Hoare (Zach Tellman)
- A User-Centred Approach to Functions in Excel by Jones, Burnett, & Blackwell (Suz Hinton)
- Feral Concurrency Control: An Empirical Investigation of Modern Application Integrity by Bailis et al. (Caitie McCaffrey)
- Astraction Mechanisms in CLU by Liskov et al. (Caitie McCaffrey)
- Distributed Programming in Argus by Liskov (Caitie McCaffrey)
- Sick Systems: How to Keep Someone With You Forever by Issendai (Stephanie Hurlburt)
- Southern Islands by G-Truc Creation (Stephanie Hurlburt)
- List of Engineers Willing to Mentor You by Stephanie Hurlburt (Stephanie Hurlburt)
- Spreadsheets for Developers by Felienne Hermans (Suz Hinton)
Thanks to @hjr3 for adding recs from Caitie's talk! https://gist.github.com/hjr3/9d11dac6ddc4495e876077c0096ab309