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Mine was Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs or SICP.
Metamagical Themas from Douglas R. Hofstadter. I even have both a soft and a hard cover copy on my shelf. This book opened my mind on a lot of subjects big time.
This was a long time ago, but the book was beautiful right off the shelf and it made so much immediate, intuitive sense. It also came at just the right time in my life when I needed to focus on broad outlays of information, but didn't yet realize it, or how to do it.
Later on I developed my own method but I still go back and browse the book from time to time. A few years after my first reading, I used mind mapping to help me with a very stressful job and was able to get weeks ahead of my work there, using the extra time to learn about interesting new tech.
But beyond the principles/methods themselves, the book opened my mind to the idea that one could find ways to work with additional inspiration and productivity in the ideas & concepts space, which I built on as a foundation later as a professional trainer and coach.
The author's lecturing presence and style was also pretty unique. He was a broad thinker by nature, and was able to impart the beauty of such as quite uniquely different from the deeper sort of thinking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEokHNWf-Qg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Buzan
Interesting post idea, thanks.
https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/simon_1031467.cfm
Herbert Simon later went on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions on "Bounded Rationality" in decision making.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1978/sim...
The Requiem for Homo Sapiens tetralogy by David Zindell.