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I haven't read all these books but want to read them some day.
Below is direct extract from some web site about the books:

The Books:

1. The Psychology of Everyday Things by Don Norman: This easy-to-read book is awesome. It is so much fun. If you want to get people jazzed up about human factors and usability, this is the book you need. Don's book will help you understand why simple design is critical in your life. He uses real examples, with great pictures and descriptions. You will recognize the problems he describes and you might even laugh as you read his book. If you want to explain usability to your friends or parents, get them this book. If you want to help designers and developers understand the general idea of usability, get this book. I highly recommend it, although it doesn't directly relate to web design or the internet.

2. Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen:  Jakob's book is full of excellent ideas, and he backs up most of what he says with his research. This is probably my second favorite book on web usability. He covers content design, page design, site design, and accessibility. The index is great and the color screenshots are excellent. If I am stuck on something, I can usually get back on track with this book. In some ways, this is a stronger version of Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think. I'd get that first, and then pick up Designing Web Usability. 

3. Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielsen: If you really want to dig into usability, you'll need this book. In this important book, Jakob digs into usability methods. You will get an excellent background in usability; learn how to do it yourself to some degree. Unlike most other design books, you will be able to apply the ideas from this book immediately. I think I can say that this is still the most important usability book you can buy, although it is nearly 10 years old.

4. Web Redesign - Workflow That Works by Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler: When I first looked at this book, I thought it sucked. I didn't buy it. However, New Riders Publishing decided to send me a review copy. I almost threw it into my I'll Never Read This Book heap. But, I read through it and realized that it is the best book on the web design process available today. Unfortunately, the title is dead wrong; the book isn't really about re-design and it isn't about workflow. Instead, Kelly and Emily cover all the angles: project management, project development, usability testing, standards, creative design, strategy, and more. They repeatedly emphasize usability; excellent! They also give you checklists, useful tips, and expert interviews. Whether you have a large site or small, whether you are creating a new site or revamping your old site, this is a good book to have. It definitely deserves more praise by more people.

5. Cost-Justifying Usability by Randolph Bias and Deborah Mayhew: I'll keep this simple. People who do usability do a terrible job selling the benefits of usability. If you need to explain why usability is great, pass along a copy of The Psychology of Everyday Things. Then, follow up with facts, figures, and details from Cost-Justifying Usability. You be able to pump up almost any proposal with real data and a solid economic justification of usability. Are you really serious about usability? Get this book. 

6. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville:  I really liked the first edition of this book but I love the second edition. This is the most important book on information architecture. If that is your bag, you simply must get this book. End of story. However, if you are mainly concerned with web usability, this is still an excellent reference book. You'll learn all about web site structure, effective navigation, proper use of labels, and a lot more. Peter and Lou also dip into information architecture justification and business strategy. You might find the case studies useful too. For what it is worth.

7. Submit Now - Designing Persuasive Web Site by Andrew Chak:  I've been saying for years that web design, usability, and marketing need to come together. Usability books tend to miss the point about marketing, and, of course, web marketing books miss the point about usability. They were oceans apart. Submit Now bridges the gap. This is the absolute best book on usability combined with web marketing. Unfortunately, this book is a sleeper; not enough people know about it. That is a shame because Andrew's book will help so many people understand how to improve their e-commerce web sites while simultaneously improving usability.

Some other good HCI/Visual Designing Books:

Author (s)/Title	Year	Topic
Baxley, Bob Making the Web Work � Designing Effective Web Applications	2002	Design: Web design, Web applications, Methodology Review
Bederson, Benjamin B.; Shneiderman, Ben The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections	2003	Information: Information presentation Review
Beyer, Hugh; Holtzblatt, Karen Contextual Design: A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs	1997	Usability: Methodology - Contextual design, User task analysis Review
Boedker, Keld; Kensing, Finn; Simonsen, Jesper Participatory IT Design	2004	Usability: UI Design
Bolter, Jay David; Gromala Diane Windows and Mirrors : Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency	2003	Design: General Review
Card, Stuart; Mackinlay, Jock; Schneiderman, Ben Readings in Information Visualization	1999	Information: Information presentation
Constantine, Larry L. Beyond Chaos: The Expert Edge in Managing Software Development	2001	General
Constantine, Larry L.; Lockwood, Lucy A. D. Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design (ACM Press)	1999	Usability: Methodology - User task analysis
Cooper, Alan; Reimann, Robert M. About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design	2003	Usability: UI design
Cooper, Alan About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design	1995	Usability: UI design
Cooper, Alan; Saffo, Paul The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity	1999	General
van Duyne, Douglas K.; Landay, James A.; Hong, Jason I. The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience	2002	Design: Web design
Fowler, Susan; Stanwick, Victor Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software	2004	Usability: Web application design
Fowler, Susan; Stanwick, Victor Gui Design Handbook (McGraw-Hill Series on Object Technology) Web edition	1997	Usability: UI design
Fowler, Susan; Stanwick, Victor The GUI Style Guide	1994	Usability: UI design
Graham, Ian A Pattern Language for Web Usability	2003	Usability: Web design
Hackos, JoAnn Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery	2002	Information: Information design
Hackos, JoAnn; Redish, Janice User and Task Analysis for Interface Design	1998	Usability: Methodology - User task analysis
Holtzblatt, Karen; Wendell, Jessamy Burns; Wood, Shelley Rapid Contextual Design: A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design	2004	Usability: Methodology - Contextual design, User task analysis
Horton, William K. Designing and Writing Online Documentation: Hypermedia for Self-Supporting Products (2nd Edition)	1994	Information: Information design Usability: Help and documentation
Horton, William K. The Icon Book: Visual Symbols for Computer Systems and Documentation	1994	Design: Graphic design
Jacobson, Robert (Ed.) Information Design	2000	Information: Information design Review
Johnson, Jeff Web Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes and How To Avoid Them	2003	Usability: Web design Review
Johnson, Jeff GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers	2000	Usability: UI design Review
Kahn, Paul & Lank, Krysztof Mapping Web Sites (German version: Websites visualisieren)	2001	Design: Web design Information: Information presentation
Kosslyn, Stephen M. Elements of Graph Design	1993	Information: Information presentation Review
Kuniavsky, Mike Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research	2003	Usability: Methods
Landauer, Thomas, K. The Trouble With Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity	1995-96	General
Brenda Laurel (Ed.) Design Research: Methods and Perspectives	2003	Design: General Review
Thoughtful Interaction Design L�wgren, Jonas; Stolterman, Erik	2004	Usability: UI design
Looking Good in Color: The Desktop Publisher's Design Guide	-	Design: Graphic design
Mayhew, Deborah J. The Usability Engineering Life Cycle	1999	Usability: UI design, Methodology
McCarthy, John; Wright, Peter Technology as Experience	2004	General
McCullough, Malcolm Digital Ground : Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing	2004	General
Nielsen, Jakob Usability Engineering	1994	Usability: UI design, Methodology
Nielsen, Jakob Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity	1999	Usability: Web usability
Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things	1990-94-02	General
Norman, Donald A. Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine	1994	General
Norman, Donald A. The Invisible Computer	1998-99	General
Norman, Donald A. Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things	2003	General, Design
Preece, Jennifer; Sharp, Helen; Rogers, Yvonne Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction	2002	Usability: UI design
Raskin, Jef The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems	2000	General
Reeves, Byron; Nass, Clifford The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places	1996-98	General
Rosenfeld, Louis; Morville, Peter Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Second Edition.	2002	Information: Infomation design
Rubin, Jeffrey Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests	1994	Usability: Testing
Shneiderman, Ben Leonardo's Laptop	2002-03	General Review
Shneiderman, Ben; Plaisant, Catherine Designing the User Interface (4th Edition)	2003	Usability: UI design
Shedroff, Nathan Experience Design 1	2001	Design
Siegel, David Creating Killer Web Sites, Second Edition	1997	Design: Web design
Snyder, Carolyn Paper Prototyping	2003	General: Prototyping Review
Spence, Robert Information Visualization	2000	Information: Information presentation Review
Spool, Jared; DeAngelo, Terri; Scanlon, Tara; Schroeder, Will; Snyder, Carolyn Web Site Usability	1998	Usability: Web usability
Tognazzini, Bruce Tog on Interface	1992	General
Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information	1990	Information: Information presentation
Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information	1983	Information: Information presentation
Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative	1997	Information: Information presentation
Weinman, Lynda Designing Web Graphics.4	2003	Design: Web design
Weinman, Lynda; Weinman, William Creative HTML Design.2	2001	Design: Web design
Weinman, Lynda; Lentz, Jon Warren Deconstructing Web Graphics.2	1998	Design: Web design
Etienne Wenger, William M. Snyder, & Richard MacDermott Cultivating Communities of Practice	2002	General Review
Winograd, Terry (Ed.) Bringing Design to Software	1996	Design: Software design Review
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Steve Krug	-	-
A Practical Guide to Usability Testing Joseph S. Dumas, Janice C. Redish	1999	-
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web Jesse James Garrett	-	-
Built for Use: Driving Profitability Through the User Experience Karen Donoghue, Michael D Schrage (Hardcover)	-	-
Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology Ellen Isaacs, Alan Walendowski	-	-
Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques Kevin Mullet, Darrell Sano	-	-
Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability - by Luke Wroblewski	-	-
Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Websites Andrew Chak	-	-
Customer-Centered Design: A New Approach to Web Usability Kreta Chandler, Karen Hyatt	-	-
Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone John M. Slatin, Sharron Rush	-	-
The Elements of User Interface Design  Theo Mandel	-	-