My ever-evolving reading list for the coming weeks, months, years :)
You can click on the ★★★★★ icons to link to a review I wrote.
Programming
- Clean Code - Robert C. Martin ★★★
- Code Complete - Steve McConnell
- Head First Design Patterns - Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann ★★★★★ Absolutely amazing and a must read for any software engineer
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold
- Agile Software Development Principles - Robert C. Martin
- Test-Driven Development - Kent Beck
- Effective Python - Brett Slatkin
- Fluent Python - Luciano Ramalho
Data Science / Analytics
- Learning Spark - Holden Karau, Andy Konwinski, Patrick Wendell, Matei Zaharia ★★★★★
- Show Me the Numbers - Stephen Few ★★★★★
- Doing Data Science - Cathy O’Neil, Rachel Schutt ★★★★
- Information Dashboard Design - Stephen Few ★★★★
- The Art of Data Science - Roger D. Peng and Elizabeth Matsui ★★★
- Now You See It - Stephen Few ★★★
- The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
Social skills
- How To Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie ★★★★★
- The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
- Leadership and Self-Deception - The Arbinger Institute
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini
Self-development
- Outwitting the Devil - Napoleon Hill ★★★★
- The Magic of Thinking Big - David Schwartz ★★★★★
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - Scott Adams ★★★★★
- The War of Art - Steven Pressfield ★★★★
- Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl ★★★★
- The Compound Effect - Darren Hardy ★★★★
- Be Obsessed or Be Average - Grant Cardone ★★
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - Mark Manson ★★★★
- Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter ★★ Started but stopped soon after. No idea what this book is about.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman ★★★
- Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★★★★
- As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
- Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz
- Maximum Achievement - Brian Tracy
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
- Awaken The Giant Within - Tony Robbins
- Eat That Frog - Brian Tracy
Stoicism
- A Guide to the Good Life - William B. Irvine ★★★★★
- The Daily Stoic - Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman ★★★★★
- The Obstacle Is The Way - Ryan Holiday ★★
Finance
- The 4-hour Work week - Tim Ferriss ★★★★★
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Gordon Malkiel
- The Richest Man In Babylon - George Samuel Clason
- The Millionaire Fastlane - MJ DeMarco
- Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
Marketing
- The E-Myth Revisited - Michael E. Gerber
- The Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman