Reads
📚 A list of physical books I own. Includes ratings!
If you have book recommendations for me, please create a Pull Request adding a link at the end of inbox.markdown.
Books I would like to read but I haven't purchased yet can be found on my Amazon wishlist.
Ratings
🌑 Haven't read yet (28/84)🌘 🌗 🌖 Reading progress (4/84)🌕 Finished reading, liked it (27/84)🌝 Wouldn't recommend (2/84)🌟 Loved it (23/84)
Web Performance
🌑 Designing for Performance Weighing Aesthetics and Speed🌑 Even Faster Web Sites Performance Best Practices for Web Developers🌟 High Performance Browser Networking What every web developer should know about networking and web performance🌑 High Performance JavaScript Build Faster Web Application Interfaces🌑 High Performance Web Sites Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
User Experience/Interaction Design/Usability
🌟 About Face The Essentials of Interaction Design (3rd edition)🌕 Defensive Design for the Web How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points🌟 Don't Make Me Think A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability🌝 Lean UX Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience🌟 The Design of Everyday Things🌟 The Inmates Are Running the Asylum Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
Web Design
🌑 Adaptive Web Design Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement🌕 CSS Secrets Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems
Art/Design
🌕 How Buildings Learn What Happens After They're Built🌟 The Accidental Masterpiece On the Art of Life and Vice Versa🌑 What Are You Looking At? The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
Languages
🌑 Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment🌑 Beginning Ruby From Novice to Professional🌑 Eloquent JavaScript A Modern Introduction to Programming🌕 JavaScript: The Good Parts🌑 Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A Beginner's Guide🌑 Learning Python🌑 Programming ElixirFunctional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun🌑 The Art of UNIX Programming
Compilers
Development Philosophy
🌝 Becoming a Technical Leader An Organic Problem-Solving Approach🌑 Clean Code A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship🌑 Domain-Driven Design Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software🌕 Getting Real The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application🌕 Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code🌕 The Clean Coder A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers🌟 The Pragmatic Programmer From Journeyman to Master
Algorithms
🌗 Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction🌕 Hacker's Delight🌕 Head First Design Patterns🌟 Programming Pearls
AI
Databases/Search
🌟 Elasticsearch The Definitive Guide🌕 NoSQL Distilled A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence🌕 Understanding MySQL Internals
Product Design
Marketing/Sales/Negotiation
🌕 Crossing the Chasm Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers🌟 How to Win Friends & Influence People🌕 The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
Economics
On Thinking
🌑 Antifragile Things That Gain from Disorder🌗 Gödel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid🌟 Thinking, Fast and Slow
On Writing
🌑 Nicely Said Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose🌑 On Writing Well The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction🌟 The Sense of Style The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Way of Life
🌕 Search Inside Yourself The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)🌕 Tao Te Ching🌕 The Art of Learning An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Startups/Businesses
🌟 Business Adventures Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street🌕 Rework🌕 Start-up Nation The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle🌟 The Innovator’s Dilemma When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail🌟 The Lean Startup How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses🌕 The New Kingmakers How Developers Conquered the World🌕 The Year Without Pants WordPress.com and the Future of Work🌟 Zero to One Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Teamwork
🌕 Peopleware Productive Projects and Teams🌑 Rapid Development Taming Wild Software Schedules🌟 The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering
Management
Personalities/Life Stories
🌟 A Brief History of Time🌟 Countdown to Zero Day Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon🌕 Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future🌕 Empires of Light Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World🌑 Ghost in the Wires My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker🌑 Masters of Doom How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture🌕 Nikola Tesla: My Inventions🌑 Outliers The Story of Success🌟 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character🌑 The Cathedral & the Bazaar Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary🌑 Weaving the Web The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web