Reads
π A list of physical books I own. Includes ratings!
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Books I would like to read but I haven't purchased yet can be found on my Amazon wishlist.
Ratings
π Haven't read yetπ π π Reading progressπ Finished reading, liked itπ Wouldn't recommendπ Loved it
Business
Businesses / Decisionmaking
π Business Adventures Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Streetπ Only the Paranoid Surviveπ The Hard Thing About Hard Things Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answersπ The Innovatorβs Dilemma When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Failπ The Lean Startup How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businessesπ Zero to One Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Futureπ Blitzscaling The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companiesπ Invent and Wander The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezosπ Reworkπ Start-up Nation The Story of Israel's Economic Miracleπ The New Kingmakers How Developers Conquered the Worldπ The Year Without Pants WordPress.com and the Future of Workπ Thinking in Bets Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Factsπ Alibaba The House That Jack Ma Builtπ Amazon Unbound Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empireπ Billion Dollar Loser The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWorkπ Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevantπ Competing Against Luck The Story of Innovation and Customer Choiceπ Good to Great Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don'tπ High Growth Handbook Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 Peopleπ The Big Score The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valleyπ The Business of Platforms Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Powerπ The Everything Store Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazonπ The Undoing Project A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Leadership / Management
π An Elegant Puzzle Systems of Engineering Managementπ High Output Managementπ The Manager's Path A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Changeπ The Phoenix Project A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Winπ On Managing Peopleπ The Making of a Manager What to Do When Everyone Looks to Youπ Trillion Dollar Coach The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbellπ Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leadersπ Hit Refresh The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyoneπ Reboot Leadership and the Art of Growing Upπ The Effective Executive The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Doneπ The Ride of a Lifetime Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Teamwork
π The Five Dysfunctions of a Team A Leadership Fableπ The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineeringπ Peopleware Productive Projects and Teamsπ Rapid Development Taming Wild Software Schedules
Marketing / Sales / Negotiation
π How to Win Friends & Influence Peopleπ Crossing the Chasm Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customersπ Positioning The Battle for Your Mindπ The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
Capital
Economics / Capitalism / Money
π A Random Walk Down Wall Street The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investingπ Stubborn Attachments A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individualsπ Capital in the Twenty First Centuryπ Capitalism, Alone The Future of the System That Rules the Worldπ Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingπ Theory of Games and Economic Behaviorπ VC An American Historyπ Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Payments / Crypto / DeFi
π Payments Systems in the U.S. A Guide for the Payments Professionalπ Bank 4.0 Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bankπ Electronic Value Exchange Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment Systemπ The Anatomy of the Swipe Making Money Moveπ The Internet of Money, Vol I A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulosπ The Internet of Money, Vol II A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulosπ The Internet of Money, Vol III A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Software
Development Philosophy
π The Pragmatic Programmer From Journeyman to Masterπ Getting Real The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Applicationπ Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Codeπ The Clean Coder A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmersπ Becoming a Technical Leader An Organic Problem-Solving Approachπ Clean Code A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanshipπ Domain-Driven Design Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Algorithms
π Programming Pearlsπ Hacker's Delightπ Head First Design Patternsπ Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
AI
Databases / Search
π Elasticsearch The Definitive Guideπ Understanding MySQL Internalsπ NoSQL Distilled A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence
Programming Languages
π JavaScript: The Good Partsπ Programming ElixirFunctional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun
π Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environmentπ Beginning Ruby From Novice to Professionalπ Eloquent JavaScript A Modern Introduction to Programmingπ Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A Beginner's Guideπ Learning Pythonπ The Art of UNIX Programming
Compilers
π CLR via C#π Mastering Regular Expressionsπ Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Web Performance
π High Performance Browser Networking What every web developer should know about networking and web performanceπ Designing for Performance Weighing Aesthetics and Speedπ Even Faster Web Sites Performance Best Practices for Web Developersπ High Performance JavaScript Build Faster Web Application Interfacesπ High Performance Web Sites Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
Experience / Design
User Experience / Interaction Design / Usability
π About Face The Essentials of Interaction Design (3rd edition)π Don't Make Me Think A Common Sense Approach to Web Usabilityπ The Design of Everyday Thingsπ The Inmates Are Running the Asylum Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanityπ Defensive Design for the Web How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis pointsπ Lean UX Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experienceπ The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Web Design
Product Design
Art / Architecture / Design
π The Accidental Masterpiece On the Art of Life and Vice Versaπ What Are You Looking At? The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Artπ How Buildings Learn What Happens After They're Built
Broader Interests
On Thinking / Behavioralism / Way of Life
π Antifragile Things That Gain from Disorderπ Man's Search for Meaningπ Thinking, Fast and Slowπ Search Inside Yourself The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)π Tao Te Chingπ The Art of Learning An Inner Journey to Optimal Performanceπ GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braidπ Letters from a Stoicπ Meditationsπ Scientific Freedom The Elixir of Civilizationπ The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Learning to Learnπ The Daily Stoic 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Livingπ The Happiness Hypothesis Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdomπ The Upside of Stress Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
On Writing
π The Sense of Style The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Centuryπ Nicely Said Writing for the Web with Style and Purposeπ On Writing Well The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Personalities / Inspiration
π Countdown to Zero Day Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weaponπ Masters of Doom How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Cultureπ Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Characterπ Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Futureπ Empires of Light Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the Worldπ Ghost in the Wires My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hackerπ Nikola Tesla: My Inventionsπ Weaving the Web The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Webπ Chaos Monkeys Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valleyπ Dealers of Lightning Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Ageπ Outliers The Story of Successπ The Cathedral & the Bazaar Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionaryπ The Dream Machine J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
Sciences
π A Brief History of Timeπ Life's Edge The Search for What It Means to Be Aliveπ The Selfish Geneπ Sapiens A Brief History of Humankindπ On the Origin of Speciesπ An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburghπ Entangled Life How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futuresπ Lifespan The Revolutionary Science of Why We Age β and Why We Donβt Have Toπ Reality Is Not What It Seems The Journey to Quantum Gravityπ Why We Sleep Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Politics / History
π SPQR A History of Ancient Romeπ The Dictator's Handbook Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politicsπ The Powerful and the Damned <subPrivate Diaries in Turbulent Timesπ The Wires of War Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
Education / Culture
π The Culture Map Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Businessπ Difficult Conversationsπ How Children Failπ Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationshipsπ Prepared What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life