Books I've Read
Here is a selection of non-fiction books I found interesting.
Mono titles are programming-related books. Outstanding ones are highlighted. Great reads are subtly highlighted.
2025 (39 books)
- Learning Systems Thinking by Diana Montalion
- PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them by Jimmy Angelakos
- The Confident Mind by Nate Zinsser
- Effective Kotlin by Marcin Moskala
- Product Driven by Matt Watson
- Do Story by Bobette Buster
- Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner
- The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins
- A Master's Secret Whispers by Kapil Gupta
- There Is No HOW (Outstanding) by Kapil Gupta
- When Things Fall Apart (Great) by Pema Chödrön
- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- Vertical Growth by Michael Bunting and Carl Lemieux
- An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson
- The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
- Replacing Guilt by Nate Soares
- Homo Prospectus (Great) by Martin Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy Baumeister and Chandra Sripada
- Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers
- SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham
- Awareness by Anthony de Mello
- Stand The F*ck Out by Louis Grenier
- Modern LaTeX by Matt Kline
- Gentling the Bull by Irmgard Schloegl
- Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson
- Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
- Connect by David L. Bradford and Carole Robin
- The Socratic Method by Ward Farnsworth
- The Do-It-Yourself Lobotomy by Tom Monahan
- Simply Said by Jay Sullivan
- Soul without Shame by Byron Brown
- Inner Work by Robert A. Johnson
- The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N. Aron
- Bending Reality by Victoria Song
- Spark for the Fire by Ian Wharton
- That One Should Disdain Hardships by Musonius Rufus
- How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself by Matt Hackett
- Under Saturn's Shadow by James Hollis
- Programming in Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy
2024 (80 books)
- Don't Send a Resume by Jeffrey J. Fox
- Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
- Rust Brain Teasers by Herbert Wolverson
- How to Live an Extraordinary Life by Anthony Pompliano
- Writing for Developers by Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop
- Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
- Refactoring by Martin Fowler
- Implementing Lean Software Development by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
- The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp and Mark Reiter
- The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long
- Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals by Heidi Grant Halvorson
- The Gardener and the Carpenter by Alison Gopnik
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld
- Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
- This Is Strategy by Seth Godin
- CSS in Depth (Great) by Keith Grant
- Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar
- Tiny CSS Projects by Martine Dowden and Michael Gearon
- The Five Love Languages by Gary D. Chapman
- American Kingpin (Great) by Nick Bilton
- Never Enough by Andrew Wilkinson
- Full Stack Web Development with Remix by Andre Landgraf
- The First Minute by Chris Fenning
- Understanding Distributed Systems (Great) by Roberto Vitillo
- Cashvertising by Drew Eric Whitman
- RabbitMQ in Action by Jason Williams
- Scalability Rules by Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher
- The Idea Writers (Great) by Teressa Iezzi
- The Secret of Selling Anything (Great) by Harry Browne
- Gap Selling by Keenan
- Organizing Genius by Warren G. Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman
- The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky
- A Whack on the Side of the Head (Great) by Roger Von Oech
- Get It Done by Ayelet Fishbach
- Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky
- Wordcraft by Jack Hart
- Against Empathy by Paul Bloom
- Herding Tigers (Great) by Todd Henry
- One Plus One Equals Three by Dave Trott
- The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry
- Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- The Catalyst by Jonah Berger
- The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
- Master of Change (Great) by Brad Stulberg
- Procrastination (Great) by Fuschia M. Sirois
- Wanting (Great) by Luke Burgis
- Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (Great) by Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman
- Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith
- The Crux by Richard Rumelt
- The Art & Business of Ghostwriting (Great) by Nicolas Cole
- Get Better at Anything (Great) by Scott H. Young
- Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim
- Lean Marketing by Allan Dib
- Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
- Insanely Simple by Ken Segall
- The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo
- Dive Into Systems (Great) by Suzanne J. Matthews, Tia Newhall and Kevin C. Webb
- Think Faster, Talk Smarter (Great) by Matt Abrahams
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess by Abby Covert
- First You Write a Sentence. by Joe Moran
- Write to Sell by Andy Maslen
- Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
- Philosophy and the Real World (Great) by Bryan Magee
- The Beginning of Infinity (Outstanding) by David Deutsch
- Magic Words by Jonah Berger
- Think Wrong by John Bielenberg, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Mike Burn and Greg Galle
- Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
- Team Topologies (Great) by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
- The Art of Explanation (Great) by Ros Atkins
- Cloud Native Go by Matthew A. Titmus
- Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal
- The Practice of Programming by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike
- Tidy First? by Kent Beck
- What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz
- The Art of Taking Action by Gregg Krech
- A Small Matter of Programming by Bonnie A. Nardi
2023 (58 books)
- Build the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks
- Chatter by Ethan Kross
- Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
- The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Great) by Martin Kleppmann
- Staff Engineer by Will Larson
- Hypermedia Systems by Carson Gross
- Beyond Effective Go by Corey S. Scott
- Practical SQL (Great) by Anthony DeBarros
- 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (Great) by Teiva Harsanyi
- The Software Engineer's Guidebook by Gergely Orosz
- Writing for Busy Readers (Great) by Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Great) by Shunryu Suzuki
- A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
- The Status Game by Will Storr
- The Anthology of Balaji by Eric Jorgenson and Balaji Srinivasan
- How to Change by Katy Milkman
- Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
- Work Clean by Dan Charnas
- Radical Candor by Kim Scott
- The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer
- Quit by Annie Duke
- The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
- The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman and Kaley Klemp
- The Song of Significance by Seth Godin
- Talent (Great) by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
- Seductive Interaction Design by Stephen P. Anderson
- Scaling People (Great) by Claire Hughes Johnson
- Slack by Tom DeMarco
- Kanban by David J. Anderson
- The Power of Character Strengths by Ryan M. Niemiec and Robert McGrath
- Concurrency in Go by Ada Notrex
- The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
- The Three Laws of Performance (Outstanding) by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan
- Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy
- How to Decide (Great) by Annie Duke
- Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
- The Tao of Coaching by Max Landsberg
- 7 Powers (Great) by Hamilton Helmer
- Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
- Your Future Self by Hal Hershfield
- Calm Technology by Amber Case
- Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
- 10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
- TomorrowMind by Gabriella Rosen Kellerman and Martin Seligman
- Snow Leopard by Nicolas Cole, Christopher Lochhead and Eddie Yoon
- How to Speak Machine by John Maeda
- Copywrong to Copywriter by Tait Ischia
- High Performance Habits (Great) by Brendon Burchard
- Go in Action by Brian Ketelsen, Erik St. Martin and William Kennedy
- Self-Compassion (Great) by Kristin Neff
- Mastering Go by Mihalis Tsoukalos
- Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
- The Second Book of the Tao by Stephen Mitchell
- Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces by Steven Hoober
- The Myth of Normal (Great) by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté
2022 (87 books)
- The Functional Art by Alberto Cairo
- Nicely Said by Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee
- The Brand Gap by Marty Neumeier
- Zag by Marty Neumeier
- Copywriting (Great) by Gyles Lingwood and Mark Shaw
- Creative Doing (Great) by Herbert Lui
- Design Unbound: Volume 1 by Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian and John Seely Brown
- Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell
- Editing by Design (Great) by Jan V. White and Alex W. White
- Orbiting the Giant Hairball (Great) by Gordon MacKenzie
- Invent and Wander by Jeff Bezos and Walter Isaacson
- Scorecard Marketing by Daniel Priestley
- Writing that Works by Kenneth Roman
- The Unpublished David Ogilvy by David Ogilvy
- Transcend by Scott Barry Kaufman
- The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris
- The How of Happiness (Great) by Sonja Lyubomirsky
- Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
- The Personal MBA (Great) by Josh Kaufman
- Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? (Great) by Julie Smith
- Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson
- Hey Whipple, Squeeze This (Great) by Luke Sullivan
- Freemium Economics by Eric Benjamin Seufert
- Positive Psychology (Great) by Rona Hart
- Solving the Procrastination Puzzle by Timothy A. Pychyl
- Writing Without Bullshit by Josh Bernoff
- Be Your Future Self Now by Dr. Benjamin Hardy
- On Revision by William Germano
- Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be by Steven Pressfield
- The Inner Game of Tennis (Great) by W. Timothy Gallwey
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
- The Big Score by Michael S. Malone
- 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People (Great) by Susan Weinschenk
- Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier
- Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
- The HeART of Laser-Focused Coaching (Great) by Marion Franklin
- Co-Active Coaching by Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl and Laura Whitworth
- Developing Coaching Skills by Dietmar Sternad
- The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
- Masters of Doom (Great) by David Kushner
- The Dream Machine (Outstanding) by M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Database Design for Mere Mortals by Michael J. Hernandez
- Designing for Behavior Change (Great) by Stephen Wendel
- Using SQLite by Jay A. Kreibich
- Coaching for Performance by Sir John Whitmore
- Design for How People Learn (Great) by Julie Dirksen
- Designing Interface Animation by Val Head
- Pitch Anything (Great) by Oren Klaff
- The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner
- Product-Led SEO by Eli Schwartz
- Build by Tony Fadell
- Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
- The Arts of PostgreSQL by Dimitri Fontaine
- Everybody Writes (Great) by Ann Handley
- How to Write Copy That Sells by Ray Edwards
- Emotional Design (Great) by Donald A. Norman
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Drive by Daniel H. Pink
- Breakthrough Copywriting by David Garfinkel
- Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
- The Choice Factory by Richard Shotton
- Copywriting Secrets by Jim Edwards
- Creativity by John Cleese
- Alchemy (Great) by Rory Sutherland
- $100M Offers (Great) by Alex Hormozi
- Way of the Wolf by Jordan Belfort
- A Self-Help Guide for Copywriters (Great) by Dan B Nelken
- The Copywriter's Toolkit by Margo Berman
- This Is Marketing by Seth Godin
- Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts (Great) by Ian Horrocks
- The Dip by Seth Godin
- Designing with the Mind in Mind by Jeff Johnson
- Sketching User Experiences (Great) by William Buxton
- Personal Socrates by Marc Champagne
- The Principles of Product Development Flow (Great) by Donald G. Reinertsen
- Happier, No Matter What by Tal Ben-Shahar
- SQL Pocket Guide by Jonathan Gennick
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
- Badass: Making Users Awesome (Outstanding) by Kathy Sierra
- Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri
- Stop Asking Questions by Andrew Warner
- The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building by Matt Mochary
- The Jobs To Be Done Playbook by Jim Kalbach
- Happy by Derren Brown
- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- The Anthropocene Reviewed (Great) by John Green
2021 (60 books)
- The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
- The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
- Mind in Motion by Barbara Tversky
- The Gap and The Gain by Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan
- The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia
- Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
- Designing User Interfaces (Great) by Dario Calonaci
- 101 Things I Learned in Business School by Preis Michael W Frederick Matthew
- Move Fast by Jeff Meyerson
- Better Web Typography for a Better Web by Matej Latin
- 101 Things I Learned in Advertising School by Tracy Arrington and Matthew Frederick
- 101 Things I Learned in Product Design School by Sung Jang, Martin Thaler and Matthew Frederick
- Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet
- Several Short Sentences About Writing (Outstanding) by Verlyn Klinkenborg
- Don't Make Me Think (Great) by Steve Krug
- The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
- The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
- Kanban in Action by Joakim Sunden and Marcus Hammarberg
- Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
- Making Work Visible by Dominica DeGrandis
- Running Lean (Great) by Ash Maurya
- Scrumban by Corey Ladas
- On Writing by Stephen King
- The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen
- The Courage to Be Happy (Great) by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- The Courage To Be Disliked (Outstanding) by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- What Great Storytellers Know by Bernadette Jiwa
- Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel
- Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick
- Personal Kanban by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry
- The Referral Engine by John Jantsch
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- The Bullet Journal Method (Great) by Ryder Carroll
- A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young
- Zero to Sold (Great) by Arvid Kahl
- Hacking Growth (Great) by Morgan Brown and Sean Ellis
- Inspired by Marty Cagan
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson and Naval Ravikant
- The Mom Test (Great) by Rob Fitzpatrick
- Traction by Justin Mares and Gabriel Weinberg
- Junior (Great) by Thomas Kemeny
- Hello, Startup (Great) by Yevgeniy Brikman
- Contagious by Jonah Berger
- The Copywriter's Handbook by Robert W. Bly
- The Sovereign Individual (Great) by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
- Debt by David Graeber
- Working in Public (Great) by Nadia Eghbal
- 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing by Gary Provost
- How to Read a Book (Great) by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
- Indistractable by Nir Eyal
- The Rational Optimist (Great) by Matt Ridley
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- Personality Isn't Permanent by Benjamin Hardy
- The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman
- Creative Confidence (Great) by David Kelley and Tom Kelley
- How Innovation Works (Great) by Matt Ridley
- Just Listen by Mark Goulston
- The Art and Business of Online Writing by Nicolas Cole
- Where Good Ideas Come from by Steven Johnson
- Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks
2020 (46 books)
- Sprint by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
- Atomic design by Brad Frost
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- Marketing Made Simple (Great) by Donald Miller and Dr. J.J. Peterson
- Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller
- How We Change by Dr Ross Ellenhorn
- Tao Te Ching (Outstanding) by Lao Tzu
- Refactoring UI (Great) by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger
- The Minto Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto
- The Choice (Great) by Edith Eva Eger and Esmé Schwall Weigand
- Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins
- A Philosophy of Software Design (Great) by John K. Ousterhout
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Selfish Gene (Great) by Richard Dawkins
- The Moment of Lift (Outstanding) by Melinda French Gates
- Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
- Ultralearning (Great) by Scott H. Young
- The 10X Rule (Great) by Grant Cardone
- Made to Stick (Great) by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Peopleware (Great) by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister
- Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
- The Mythical Man-Month (Great) by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Value Proposition Design by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda and Alan Smith
- Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
- Peak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
- The One Thing by Gary Keller
- Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It (Great) by Kamal Ravikant
- The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterner
- The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- Can't Hurt Me (Great) by David Goggins
- How to Take Smart Notes (Great) by Sönke Ahrens
- Range (Great) by David Epstein
- Stillness is the Key (Great) by Ryan Holiday
- The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
- Purple Cow by Seth Godin
- Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
- Conscious (Great) by Annaka Harris
- Effective Java (Great) by Joshua Bloch
- Keep Going (Great) by Austin Kleon
- Man's Search For Meaning (Great) by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Lion Tracker's Guide To Life (Great) by Boyd Varty
2019 and before (81 books)
- Linchpin by Seth Godin
- Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin
- Why We Sleep (Great) by Matthew Walker
- A Field Guide To Getting Lost (Great) by Rebecca Solnit
- A Guide to the Good Life (Great) by William B Irvine
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Building Microservices by Sam Newman
- Business Model Generation (Great) by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
- Business Model You by Timothy Clark, Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
- Chaos Monkeys (Great) by Antonio Garcia Martinez
- Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
- Discourses and Selected Writings (Great) by Epictetus
- Effective Python by Brett Slatkin
- Ego is the Enemy (Great) by Ryan Holiday
- Essentialism (Great) by Greg McKeown
- Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho
- Getting Past No by William Ury
- Good Prose by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd
- Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce
- Hackers & Painters (Great) by Paul Graham
- High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
- Letters from a Stoic (Outstanding) by Seneca
- Long Story Short (Great) by Margot Leitman
- Managing Oneself by Peter Ferdinand Drucker
- Mastery by Robert Greene
- Meditations (Outstanding) by Marcus Aurelius
- Naked, Drunk, and Writing (Great) by Adair Lara
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
- On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored by Adam Phillips
- On the Move (Great) by Oliver Sacks
- One Small Step Can Change Your Life by Robert Maurer Ph.D.
- Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday
- Pivot (Great) by Jenny Blake
- Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz
- Principles (Outstanding) by Ray Dalio
- Prisoner's Dilemma (Great) by William Poundstone
- Quiet (Great) by Susan Cain
- Radical Acceptance (Great) by Tara Brach
- River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
- Sapiens (Outstanding) by Yuval Noah Harari
- Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
- Socrates by Paul Johnson
- Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
- The 48 Laws Of Power (Outstanding) by Robert Greene
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Great) by Stephen R. Covey
- The Art of Strategy by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff
- The Daily Stoic (Great) by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni
- The Four Agreements (Great) by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Go Programming Language (Great) by Brian W. Kernighan and Alan Donovan
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- The Lessons of History by Will Durant and Ariel Durant
- The Lonely City (Great) by Olivia Laing
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver W. Sacks
- The Mastery of Love (Great) by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- The Road to Character (Great) by David Brooks
- The Rust Programming Language (Great) by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols
- The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Great) by Mark Manson
- Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
- Thinking, Fast and Slow (Outstanding) by Daniel Kahneman
- This Is It (Great) by Alan Watts
- When Breath Becomes Air (Outstanding) by Paul Kalanithi
- Willpower by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney
- Maxims (Outstanding) by François de La Rochefoucauld
- Zero to One (Great) by Thiel Peter Thiel
- Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
- Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Great) by Marie Kondo
- Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
- The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
- Test-driven Development by Kent Beck