And don't fail the same way over and over again

I also like visidata (https://www.visidata.org/) for viewing structured files. Doesn't produce a webpage however.

Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan

Walden by Emerson

Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter

Conveniently, I can just tack onto this list two more books and there we will have the 4 most important books on my life so far.

Sexual Personae By Camille Paglia

Capital: Volume I By Karl Marx

Hope the results will be as entertaining as the Color Survey: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/