Bookmarked this list the first time I saw it on HN seven years ago. I have been slowly working my way through it, with some personal curation, ever since.

Some of my favorites:

Conscientious Objections

Freedom and Culture

Visual Thinking

Notes on a Synthesis of Form

The Character of Physical Law

and anything Tufte

Here is the old post, with some good discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=664324