Must Read Development Books

Some of the best book I have read over the years!

People/Management

• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups Paperback – 21 Feb. 2019 by Daniel Coyle
• The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
• Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results by Mike Rother
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams Paperback by Tom DeMarco
• Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition by Frederick Brooks Jr.

Clean Code

• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin)
• The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin)
• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction Paperback – Unabridged, 19 Jun 2004
• The Pragmatic Programmer Paperback – 20 Oct 1999

Design Patterns

• GOF Design Patterns - Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• M.Fowler et al - Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code
• R.Martin - Agile Principles Patterns and Practices in C#
• Adaptive Code via C#: Agile coding with design patterns and SOLID principles

Architecture/Design

• Domain-driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software Hardcover – 20 Aug 2003 by Eric Evans
• Building Microservices Paperback – 20 Feb 2015 by Sam Newman
• Microservice Patterns: With examples in Java Paperback – 25 Jan. 2019 by Chris Richardson
• API Architecture: The Big Picture for Building APIs (API-University Series Book 2), Matthias Biehl
• RESTful API Design: Best Practices in API Design with REST (API-University Series Book 3), Matthias Biehl
• Webhooks: Events for RESTful APIs (API-University Series Book 4), Matthias Biehl
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))
• Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Martin Fowler Signature Book)

Testing

• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck)) Paperback – Illustrated, 22 Oct. 2009 by Steve Freeman
• Practical Unit Testing with JUnit and Mockito Paperback – 23 Apr 2013 Tomek Kaczanowski
• The Cucumber for Java Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers Paperback – 16 Feb. 2015 by Seb Rose

Concurrency

• Java Concurrency in Practice - by Brian Goetz

Algorithms

• Introduction to Algorithms Paperback – 20 Aug 2009 by T Cormen (Author), C Leiserson (Author), R Rivest (Author), C Stein (Author)
• Mathematics for Computer Science - Eric Lehman and Tom Leighton 2004

Languages Specific

C

• The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) Paperback – 22 Mar 1988 by Brian W. Kernighan

C#

• C# 5.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference Paperback – 29 Jun 2012 by Joseph Albahari (Author), Ben Albahari (Author)

Go

• The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) Paperback – 5 Nov 2015 by Alan A. A. Donovan (Author), Brian W. Kernighan (Contributor)

Java

• Effective Java (3rd Edition) 3rd Edition by Joshua Bloch
• Java Performance: The Definitive Guide by Scott Oaks

Javascript

• JavaScript: The Good Parts Paperback – 18 May 2008 by Douglas Crockford
• Learning JavaScript Design Patterns A book by Addy Osmani Volume 1.6.2

Python

• Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, Third Edition1 Jan 2010 by Mike Dawson
• Violent Python: A Cookbook for Hackers, Forensic Analysts, Penetration Testers and Security Engineers Paperback – 8 Nov 2012

Rust

• The Rust Programming Language
• Hands-On Microservices with Rust Denis Kolodin 2018

Other Books

• Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages - 25 Jul 2015 by Jamis Buck
• Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions (Cracking the Interview & Career) Paperback – Illustrated, 1 July 2015 by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

Online Sources

Coursera and MIT Open Courseware and Academic Papers

• MIT Performance Engineering of Software Systems
• Algorithms, Part I by Princeton University
• Algorithms, Part II by Princeton University
• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Princeton University
• Competitive Programmer's Core Skills by Saint Petersburg State University
• Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1 by Stanford University
• Machine Learning by Stanford University
• The implementation of functional programming languages

In-Flight

• The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust (Information Policy) Hardcover – Illustrated, 30 Nov. 2018 by Kevin Werbach