Not sure if this is technical enough, and maybe it is not at all, but it is a book that keeps inspiring me to build new things: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal

Not sure if this is technical enough, and maybe it is not at all, but it is a book that keeps inspiring me to build new things: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter It is a long book, but there is a lot to learn there.