Over the past month or two I’ve had several conversations with teammates where they’ve asked for my “reading list”. I read a lot, but there isn’t anything particularly special about the books I read. That being said, books are wonderful and always worth sharing, so here are the things I’ve read that have made a big impact on me. They’re mostly professional, but there are a few mind-expanding books thrown in for good measure.
Startup/ Business
- Lean Startup
- Four Steps to the Epiphany
- The Goal
- Phoenix Project
- DevOps Handbook
- High-Output Management
- Management
- Peopleware
- Mythical Man-Month
- Making Work Visible
- Accelerate
- Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
- The Four Disciplines of Execution
Product Management
- Design of Design
- Design of Everyday Things
- Inspired
- The Joy of UX
- Universal Principles of Design
- The Best Interface is No Interface
Software
- Code Complete
- Pragmatic Programmer
- Release It!
- Scalability Rules
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- The Architecture of Open Source Applications
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design
- Purely Functional Data Structures
Personal Development
- The Effective Executive
- The Manager’s Path
- On Writing Well
- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
- The Coaching Habit
- Ultralearning
Fun
- Code
- Dealers of Lightning
- Black Swan
- The Emperor’s New Mind
- Axiomatic
- Godel, Escher, Bach
- Coders at Work
- Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow
- The Book of Why