Design History, combined
History of Modern Design, David Raizman
History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000, Pat Kirkham, Susan Weber editors
Design of the 20th Century, Charlotte & Peter Fiell
American Design, Russell Flinchum, 2008
Women in Design, From Aino Aalto to Eva Zeisel, Charlotte and Clementine Fiell
American Consumer Society, 1965-2005: From Hearth to HDTV, Regina Blaszczyk, 2009
Art Deco, 1910-1939, Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton, Ghislaine Wood, eds., 2003
Designing Modern Germany, Jeremy Aynsley, 2009
Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970, David Crowley, Jane Pavitt, 2008
Modern Asian Design, D.J. Huppatz, 2018
Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design, Michael Idov, Belka Shayevich, 2011
Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985: Found in Translation, Wendy Kaplan, ed., 2017
Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference, Pat Kirkham, ed., 2000
Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art, Lothar Ledderose, 2001
Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America, Monica Obniski, Darrin Alfred, 2018
ASTOUNDING collection of Modernist Shelter Magazines! US Modernist . org
Fashion
100 Years of Fashion, Cally Blackman
Against Fashion: Clothing as Art, 1850-1930, Radu Stern
How to Read a Dress, Lydia Edwards
The Dress Detective, a Practical Guide to Object-Based Research in Fashion, Mida/Kim
Graphic Design
Meggs' History of Graphic Design, Philip B. Neggs, Alston W. Purvis
Graphic Design History, Johanna Drucker, Emily McVarish
The Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringhurst
Typographie: A Manual of Design, Emil Ruder
American Wood Type: 1828-1900, Rob Roy Kelly
Type, the Secret History of Letters, Simon Loxley
Industrial Design
The Industrial Design Reader, Carma Gorman
Industrial Design A–Z, Charlotte & Peter Fiell
The Story of Design: From the Paleolithic to the Present, Charlotte &n Peter Fiell
The Design Book, Phaidon editors
Design in the USA, Jeffrey L. Meikle, 2005
American Plastic, a Cultural History, Jeffrey Meikle, 1995
Objects of Desire, Design and Society Since 1750, Adrian Forty, 1986
Twentieth-Century Design, Jonathan M. Woodham, 1997–1979
Twentieth Century Limited, Industrial Design in America, 1925–1939, Jeffrey L. Meikle.
From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932, David A. Houndshell
Ingenious Yankees, The Rise of the American System of Manufactures in the Private Sector, Donald R. Hoke, 1990
The Streamlined Decade, Donald J. Bush, 1975
Plywood, A Material Story, Christopher Will, 2017
Connections, James Burke, 1978
Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World, Glenn Adamson, 2003
Cold War on the Home Front: the Soft Power of Design, Greg Castillo, 2010
Auto Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design, David Gartman, 1994
Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century, Pat Kirkham, 1998
Furniture
The Innovation of Craft, Glenn Adamson, 2013
Crafting Design in Italy: From Post-war to Postmodernism, Catharine Rossi, 2015
Human Centered Design •Human Factors • Ergonomics
Designing for People, Henry Dreyfuss, 1955
100 Things Designers Need to Know About People, Susan Weinschenk, 2011
The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman, 1988
Interior Design/Architecture/Exhibition
Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1498-1898, Richard Aste, ed, 2013
Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War, Jean Louis Cohenm 2011
As Seen: Exhibitions That Made Architecture and Design History, Zöe Ryan, 2017
General Interest, Design History Related
The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway
How we Got to Now, Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, Steven Johnson
Napoleon’s Buttons, 17 Molecules That Changed the World, Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
Fifty Machines That Changed the Course of History, Eric Chaline
Imagining Consumers, Design and Innovation From Wedgwood to Corning, Regina Lee Blaszczyk, 2000
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, Glenn Adamson, Jane Pavitt, eds., 2011
Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, Andrew Blaunert, 2016
Dynamics of Innovation: The Expansion of Technology in Modern Times, François Caron, 2013
Steel: A Design, Cultural and Ecological History, Tony Fry, Anne-Marie Willis, 2015
Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life, John Heskett, 2002
Primary Source
Design History, combined
Industrial Design
The Industrial Design Reader, Carma Gorman
Industrial Design A Practical Guide to Product Design and Development, Harold Van Doren, 1954
Design This Day, Walter Dorwin Teague, 1940
Horizons, Norman Bel Geddes, 1932
Keep it Simple, Hartmut Esslinger, 2013
Guide to Easier Living, Mary & Russel Wright, 1950
Design for the Real World, Victor Papanek, 1971 edition