Here is a running list of cybernetics and systems books in my personal library — either they are about cybernetics or systems theory/science per se, or they feature works by notable cyberneticians or system theorists/scientists. I have many other books that intersect with or border on cybernetics, which are not listed here — books on mind-and-matter, artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality, cyberculture(s), (new) media, interactivity, design, etc. Feel free to inquire.
- The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI by John Johnston
- An Approach to Cybernetics by Gordon Pask
- Aspects of the Theory of Artificial Intelligence: The Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Biosimulation by C. A. Muses (Ed.)
- The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics by Heinz von Foerster (edited by Albert and Karl Müller, translated by Elinor Rooks and Michael Kasenbacher)
- Brains, Machines, and Mathematics by Michael A. Arbib
- Calculator Saturnalia, or Travels with a Calculator: A Compendium of Diversions and Improving Exercises for Ladies and Gentlemen by Gordon Pask, Ranulph Glanville, and Mike Robinson
- The Certainty of Uncertainty: Dialogues Introducing Constructivism by Bernard Poerksen (Ed.)
- The Computer and the Brain by John von Neumann
- Conversation, Cognition and Learning: Cybernetic Theory and Methodology by Gordon Pask (electronic only)
- Conversation Theory: Applications in Education and Epistemology by Gordon Pask (electronic only)
- Creation: Life and How to Make It by Steve Grand
- Cybernetics by F.H. George
- Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (2nd ed.) by Norbert Wiener
- Cybernetics: The Macy-Conferences 1946-1953 1 and 2 by Claus Pias
- Cybernetics (The Twentieth Century Encyclopedia Of Catholicism) by Neville Moray
- Cybernetics (EST-320 textbook, Dept. of Technology and Society, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook)
- Cybernetics and Human Knowing: Heinz von Foerster: 1912-2002 (Vol. 10 Nos. 3-4)
- Cybernetics and Human Knowing: Gregory Bateson: Essays for an Ecology of Ideas (Vol. 12 Nos. 1-2)
- Cybernetics and Human Knowing: Francisco J. Varela: 1946-2001 (Vol. 9 No. 2)
- Cybernetics and the Image of Man: A Study of Freedom and Responsibility in Man and Machine by Harold Hatt
- Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas by Jasia Reichardt (Ed.)
- Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence, and Ecology: Proceeding from Third Symposium of the American Society for Cybernetics
- The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering
- The Cybernetics of Human Learning and Performance: A Guide to Theory and Research by Gordon Pask (electronic only)
- Cybernetics of the Nervous System by Norbert Wiener and J.P. Schadé (Eds.)
- Cybernetics Simplified by A. Porter
- The Cyborg Handbook by Chris Gray
- Design for a Brain: The Origin of Adaptive Behavior by W. Ross Ashby
- Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer
- The Dream of Reality: Heinz von Foerster’s Constructivism by Lynn Segal, Heinz von Foerster, and Paul Watzlawick
- The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity by Heinz Pagels
- Ecclesial Cybernetics: A Study of Democracy in the Church by Patrick Granfield
- Electronic Brains: How Computers Work by Rolf Lohberg and Theo Lutz
- The Electronic Cottage by Joseph Deken
- The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience by Francisco Varela
- Embodiments of Mind by Warren McCulloch
- Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory by Bruce Clarke and Mark B. N. Hansen (Eds.)
- Engineering Cybernetics by Robert M. Glorioso
- The Enlightenment Cyborg: A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660–1830 by Allison Muri
- From Being to Doing: The Origins of the Biology of Cognition by Humberto Maturana
- Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems by Stuart Umpleby (DVD set)
- General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications by Ludwig von Bertalanffy
- General Systems Theory: Problems, Perspectives, Practice by Lars Skyttner
- Great Ideas in Information Theory, Language and Cybernetics by Jagjit Singh
- The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society by Norbert Wiener
- Intelligent Machines: An Introduction to Cybernetics by D.A. Bell
- International Encyclopedia of Systems And Cybernetics (1st ed.) by Charles François
- Introduction to Cybernetics by W. Ross Ashby
- The Josiah Macy. Jr. Foundation 1930–1955: A Review of Activities
- The Living Brain by W. Grey Walter
- Machines Who Think by Pamela McCorduck
- Management Cybernetics (Tutorial) by Stuart Umpleby (DVD set)
- The Mechanical Mind in History by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler (Eds.)
- Mechanisms of Intelligence: Ashby’s Writings on Cybernetics by W. Ross Ashby and Roger Conant (electronic only)
- Micro Man by Gordon Pask and Susan Curran
- Mind and Brain: A Philosophy of Science by Arturo Rosenblueth
- Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity by Gregory Bateson
- Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science by Philip Mirowski
- Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientist by Walter Buckley
- Neural Networks and Natural Intelligence by Stephen Grossberg (Ed.)
- Observing Systems by Heinz von Foerster
- Pask Present by Ranulph Glanville and Albert Müller (Eds.)
- Pebbles to Computers: The Thread by Hans Blohm, Stafford Beer, and David Suzuki
- Philosophical Foundations of Cybernetics by F.H. George
- Philosophy and Cybernetics by Frederick Crosson and Kenneth Sayre (Eds.)
- Platform for Change by Stafford Beer
- The Process of Model-Building in the Behavioral Sciences by W. Ross Ashby et al
- Processes and Boundaries of the Mind: Extending the Limit Line by Yair Neuman
- Programming and Metaprogramming the Human Biocomputer by John Lilly
- Progress in Biocybernetics. Vols. 1 and 2 by Norbert Wiener and J.P. Schadé (Eds.)
- Purposive Systems: Proceeding from First Symposium of the American Society for Cybernetics
- Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History by Thomas Rid
- Robots, Men, and Minds: Psychology in the Modern World by Ludwig von Bertalanffy
- The Science of Art: The Cybernetics of Creative Communication by Robert E Mueller
- A Science of Goal Formulation by Stuart A. Umpleby and Vadim N. Sadovsky
- The Stanford Lectures by Heinz von Foerster (w/ audio CD)
- Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology by Gregory Bateson
- Subduing the Cosmos: Cybernetics and Man’s Future by Kenneth L Vaux
- Survey of Cybernetics: A Tribute to Dr. Norbert Wiener by J. Rose
- Systemology and Linguistic Aspects of Cybernetics by G.P Melnikov
- Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness by Roy Ascott (Author) and Edward A. Shanken (Ed.)
- The Theory of Interacting Systems: Volume 1: Niels Bohr: Reflections on Subject and Object by Paul McEvoy
- The Theory of Interacting Systems: Volume 2: Classical Theory by Paul McEvoy
- Thinking by Machine: A Study of Cybernetics by Pierre de Latil
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
- The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela
- Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores
- Understanding Systems: Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics by Heinz von Foerster and Bernhard Poerksen
- Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition by Heinz von Foerster