Information architecture books

This is one of a series of reading lists I put together between 2002 and 2004 when I was starting out in interaction and experience design, building out a personal canon from books I was buying, borrowing from libraries, or lending to students. The lists are grouped by topic. This one is on information architecture: structuring and navigating information systems, the taxonomies and classifications behind them, and the wider theories of how information gets organised and shared.
Rosenfeld & Morville’s book is the canonical introduction and still the best place to start. Bowker & Star’s Sorting Things Out is the essential theoretical counterpoint, a sociology of classification that any working IA practitioner should know. Brown & Duguid and Svenonius broaden it further into the social and philosophical foundations of information.
The Amazon links below are what I had at the time, most will be dead now, but the ISBNs will find you a copy.

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville. Now in its second edition, undoubtedly the best introduction to IA.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Information Architects

Richard Saul Wurman.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Practical Information Architecture

Eric L. Reiss.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web

Christina Wodtke.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Mapping Web Sites

Paul Kahn, Krzysztof Lenk. A surprisingly badly designed book, but packed full of very inspirational information architecture examples, from isometric site-maps to flow charts and wireframes.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Sorting Things Out

Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization

Elaine Svenonius
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Laws of the Web

Bernardo A. Huberman.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Infosense: Turning Information into Knowledge

Keith Devlin.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

The Social Life of Information

John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com