My personal list of non-fiction books I am planning to read. All categories are pretty high level and may change anytime.
If you have something to suggest feel free to make a PR.
- π is a link to goodreads/amazon/etc
- βοΈ high-priority books to be read first
βΌοΈ books you do not want to miss
Here is a list of book summary services/websites in case you need it:
- Lisp Hackers π
- β What if π
- The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets π
- A short history of nearly everything π
- Werner Siemens π
- 33 ΡΡΡΠΏΠ΅Π½ΡΠΊΠΈ Π² Π½Π΅Π±ΠΎ π
- A Mathematicians Miscellany π
- A Little Life π
- Confessions of a Terrible Husband: Lessons Learned From a Lumpy Couch π
- β The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving π
- A Leaders Framework for Decision Making π
- βοΈ The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking π
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βΌοΈ The Art of Thinking Clearly π - βοΈοΈοΈ
βΌοΈ How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking π - οΈβοΈ The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking π
- βοΈ Systems Thinking Made Simple π
- οΈβοΈ Thinking in Systems: A Primer π
- Π‘ΠΈΡΡΠ΅ΠΌΠ½ΠΎΠΈΠ½ΠΆΠ΅Π½Π΅ΡΠ½ΠΎΠ΅ ΠΌΡΡΠ»Π΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅ π
- Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most π
- βοΈ
βΌοΈ The Book Of Why π
- βοΈ Make it stick: the Science of Successful Learning π
- βοΈ
βΌοΈ Mastery π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ Pragmatic Thinkig and Learning π - βοΈ Better: A Surgeonβs Notes on Performance π
- βοΈ From Novice to Expert π
- βοΈ The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity π
- β The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well π
- β The Little Book of Lykke π
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βΌοΈ A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joyπ -
βΌοΈ The Choice π - β Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less π
- The Tao of Pooh π
- βοΈοΈοΈ The Tao of Physics π
- βοΈοΈ The Web of Life π
- βοΈοΈ Meditations π
- Letters from a Stoic π
- Dialogues and Essays π
- The Myth of Sisyphus π
- The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt π
- The Tides of Mind π
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βΌοΈ A Little History of Philosophy π
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βΌοΈ Learned Optimism π - βοΈοΈοΈ
βΌοΈ Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy π -
βΌοΈ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People π -
βΌοΈ The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a Fuck π -
βΌοΈ Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ π -
βΌοΈ Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy π - Think and Grow Rich π
- ΠΡΠ°ΡΠ½Π°Ρ ΡΠ°Π±Π»Π΅ΡΠΊΠ° π
- Winter Blues π
- βοΈοΈ The Art Of Loving π
- βοΈ Search Inside Yourself π
- βοΈοΈοΈ
βΌοΈ The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness π - βοΈ Fooled by Randomness π
- οΈβοΈ The Wisdom of Crowds π
- βοΈ The Lean Mindset π
- βοΈ Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion π
- βοΈοΈ Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion π
- βοΈ Willpower Instinct π
- βοΈ Mindset: The New Psychology of Success π
- βοΈ Parenting with Presence π
- βοΈ The Secret of Quantum Living π
- βοΈ Predictably Irrational π
- βοΈ The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence π
- βοΈ Habits of a Happy Brain π
- βοΈ A Short Guide to a Happy Life π
- βοΈ GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid π
- βοΈ Are your lights on? π
- βοΈ Games People Play π
- βοΈ The Selfish Gene π
- An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments π
- The Righteous Mind π
- The Sovereign Individual π
- Mindfulness for Beginners π
- The Defining Decade π
- ΠΠΏΠ³ΡΠ΅ΠΉΠ΄ ΠΎΠ±Π΅Π·ΡΡΠ½Ρ π
- Elite minds π
- The Political Brain π
- Speeches that Changed the World π
- Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer π
- Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership π
- Mind Power Into the 21st Century π
- The Organized Mind π
- The Art of Possibility π
- Joy Inc. π
- Hard Thing About Hard Things π
- First Impressions: You Donβt Know About How Others See You π
- Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job π
- βοΈ Do The Work π
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking π
- Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management π
- The 1% Rule π
- Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception π
- Developer Hegemony π
- οΈοΈοΈβοΈ Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective π
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βΌοΈ Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most π -
βΌοΈ How to win friends and influence people π - βοΈοΈοΈ
βΌοΈ The Social Skills Guidebook π - βοΈοΈοΈ
βΌοΈ People Skills π - βοΈ Crucial Conversations π
- βοΈ Getting Past No π
- β Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life π
- Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time π
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βΌοΈ Non Violent Communication π - Dynamic People Skills π
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βΌοΈ Badass: Making Users Awesome π -
βΌοΈ Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products π -
βΌοΈ Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences π - Design for Hackers π
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βΌοΈ The Humane Interface π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ The Design of Everyday Things π - βοΈ Non-Designer's Design Book, The, 4th Edition π
- βοΈ Seductive Interaction Design π
- Designing Web Interfaces. Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions π
- UX for Lean Startups π
- Design For business π
- Design: creation of artifacts in society π
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More π
- βοΈ HBR Guide to Coaching Employees π
- βοΈ
βΌοΈ Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman π - βοΈ What Got You Here Won't Get You There π
- βοΈ
βΌοΈ Coaching for Performance π - βοΈ Free To Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life π
- βοΈ The New Education π
- Open: How Weβll Work, Live and Learn In The Future π
- A Mathematicianβs Lament π
- βοΈ
βΌοΈ The Sciences of the Artificial, Third Edition π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces π - οΈβοΈ The art and craft of problem solving π
- οΈβοΈ Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories π
- βοΈ Paradoxes of Growth: Laws of Global Development of Humanity π
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βΌοΈ A New Kind Of Science π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality π - A Brief History of Time π
- Sapiens π
- Alice in Quantumland π
- The annotated Turing π
- Entropy π
- ΠΠΎΠ»ΠΎΡΠΎΠΉ Π±ΠΈΠ»Π΅Ρ. P, NP ΠΈ Π³ΡΠ°Π½ΠΈΡΡ Π²ΠΎΠ·ΠΌΠΎΠΆΠ½ΠΎΠ³ΠΎ π
- Scale π
- Smart Spacetime π
- βοΈ
βΌοΈ Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs π -
βΌοΈ Release it! π -
βΌοΈ Practical Object-Oriented Desing with Ruby π - Building Microservices π
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βΌοΈ The Passionate Programmer π -
βΌοΈ Soft Skills π -
βΌοΈ οΈClean Code π -
βΌοΈ οΈ Head First Design Patterns π -
βΌοΈ The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master π - Clean Architecture π
- Domain Driven Design Distilled π
- How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything π
- Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition π
- βοΈ The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win π
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βΌοΈ Basic Category Theory π - β
βΌοΈ The Art of Doing Science and Engineering π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ οΈ Domain Modeling Made Functional π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ οΈ High Performance Browser Networking π - β High Performance JavaScript π
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βΌοΈ οΈ Structured Computer Organization π - βοΈ Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming π
- βοΈοΈ
βΌοΈ οΈοΈ Grokking Algorithms π - βοΈ Programming Beyond Practices π
- β Thinking Forth π
- βοΈ
βΌοΈ Site Reliability Engineering π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ Working Effectively with Legacy Code π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ Object-Oriented Software Construction (2nd Edition) π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ Designing Data-Intensive Applications π - βοΈ The nature of software development π
- βοΈ The Algorithm Design Manual 2nd Edition π
- βοΈ Functional and Reactive Data Modelling π
- βοΈ Domain Driven Design Quickly π
- βοΈ Software Engineering, 9th edition π
- βοΈ Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach π
- βοΈ SWEBOK π
- βοΈ Software Estimation: demistifying the black art π
- βοΈ The Elements of Programming Style π
- βοΈ Smalltalk best practices π
- βοΈ Type Driven Development with Idris π
- βοΈ Growing Object Oriented Software with Tests π
- βοΈ Production Ready Microservices π
- β Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model π
- β 99 Bottles of OOP π
- βοΈ Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed π
- β Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++
- β Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts π
- β Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming π
- β Getting Clojure π
- TypeScript Deep Dive π
- How Google Tests Software π
- Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks π
- The Imposter's Handbook π
- Haskell Book π
- Why Programs Fail π
- The Art of Readable Code π
- The Inmates are Running the Asylum π
- Resilient Web Design π
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software π
- JavaScript: The Good Parts π
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture π
- Enterprise Integration Patterns π
- Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications π
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code π
- Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) π
- Purely Functional Data Structures π
- Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition π
- The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code π
- Code Simplicity π
- Category Theory π
- Concurrent Programming in ML π
- Feature-Oriented Software Product Lines π
- DevOps Handbook π
- Continuos Delivery π
- Clojure for Brave and True π
- Clojure Reactive Programming π
- Web Development with Clojure π
- Exploratory Software Testing π
- Testing Computer Software π
- Software Architecture For Developers π
- Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline π
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days π
- A Philosophy of Software Design π
- Design it! π
- Building Evolutionary Architectures π
- Programming In Martin LΓΆf's Type Theory: An Introduction π
- The Zen Programmer π
- The Tao of Microservices π
- β Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming π
- Human Factors for Engineers π
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βΌοΈ Thinking, Fast and Slow π -
βΌοΈ Getting Things Done (2015 edition) π -
βΌοΈ Deep Work π - Make the Most of Your Mind π
- So Good They Can't Ignore You π
- βοΈ Work rules! π
- ΠΠ°ΠΌΠ°ΡΡΡΡΠ° Π΄Π»Ρ ΠΎΡΠ°ΡΠΎΡΠ° π
- ΠΠ· ΡΠ²ΡΠ·Π΅ΠΉ Π² ΠΊΠ½ΡΠ·ΠΈ π
- How to Do What You Love & Earn What Youβre Worth as a Programmer π
- 80000 hours: Career Guide π
- βοΈ Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise π
- Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers π
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear π
- ΠΡΠΎΠ³ΡΠ°ΠΌΠΌΠΈΡΠΎΠ²Π°Π½ΠΈΠ΅. Π‘ΡΡΠΏΠ΅Π½ΠΈ ΡΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΠ½ΠΎΠΉ ΠΊΠ°ΡΡΠ΅ΡΡ π
- The 4 Hour Work Week π
- The 48 Laws of Power π
- Fearless salary negotiation π
- The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) π
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience π
- The First 20 hours π
- Better than Before π
- Drive π
- The Start-up of You π
- The Denial of Death π
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing π
- Million Dollar Consulting π
- The Effective Engineer π
- The Professional: A Manifesto for Business in the 21st Century π
- Cracking the PM Interview π
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βΌοΈ Mini Habits π - β
βΌοΈ Stick With It π - Miracle Morning π
- βοΈ The Power of Habit π
- οΈβοΈ Algorithms to live by π
- οΈβοΈ Productivity Handbook π
- 52 Small Changes: One Year to a Happier, Healthier You π
- Daily Rituals π
- Reinvent yourself π
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βΌοΈ Your Money or Your Life π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ If you can: how millenials can get rich slowly π - βοΈ The Little Book of Common Sense Investing π
- βοΈ All about Asset Allocation π
- βοΈ Debunking Economics π
- The intelligent investor π
- The Intelligent Asset Allocator π
- βοΈ The Four Pillars of Investing π
- ΠΠ°ΡΠΈ Π΄Π΅Π½ΡΠ³ΠΈ Π΄ΠΎΠ»ΠΆΠ½Ρ ΡΠ°Π±ΠΎΡΠ°ΡΡ π
- The Undercover Economist π
- βοΈ How to Think About Money π
- The Way Of The Superior Man π
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βΌοΈ No More Mr. Nice Guy π - οΈModels π
- βοΈ Man's search for meaning π
- Tao Te Ching π
- βοΈ Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind π
- βοΈ On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction π
- βοΈ ΠΠΈΡΠΈ, Π‘ΠΎΠΊΡΠ°ΡΠ°ΠΉ π
- βοΈ How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling π
- The Burned-Out Blogger's Guide to PR π
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βΌοΈ Crossing the Chasm π -
βΌοΈ Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ The Professional Marketer π - βοΈοΈοΈ 15 invaluable laws of growth π
- βοΈοΈοΈ The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing π
- βοΈ The Difference π
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable π
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βΌοΈ The Secrets of Consulting π - The Lean Startup π
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βΌοΈ Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup π - βοΈ The 100$ Startup π
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βΌοΈ E-myth revisited π - βοΈ The ten day MBA π
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team π
- ΠΠ΅ ΠΌΠ΅ΡΠ°ΠΉΡΠ΅ ΠΌΠ½Π΅ ΡΠ°Π±ΠΎΡΠ°ΡΡ π
- β Good to Great π
- β Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture π
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βΌοΈ The art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life π - βοΈ
βΌοΈ Five languages of appreciation π - βοΈ The Advantage π
- βοΈ The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable π
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βΌοΈ Antifragile π - βοΈ More Fearless Change π
- βοΈ Flawless Consulting π
- βοΈ Peopleware π
- βοΈ The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer π
- βοΈ The Deadline π
- βοΈ First, Break All the Rules π
- βοΈ Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process π
- βοΈ Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time π
- βοΈ The Richest Man in Babylon π
- βοΈ The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation π
- βοΈ Extreme Programming Explained π
- βοΈ Professional Software Development π
- Rework π
- Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide π
- β The Manager's Path π
- Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager π
- Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed π
- ΠΠΎΠ½ΡΠ΅Π½Ρ-ΡΠ΅Ρ Π½ΠΎΠ»ΠΎΠ³ΠΈΡ: ΠΊΠ°ΠΊ, Π³Π΄Π΅ ΠΈ ΠΎ ΡΠ΅ΠΌ Π³ΠΎΠ²ΠΎΡΠΈΡΡ Ρ ΠΊΠ»ΠΈΠ΅Π½ΡΠ°ΠΌΠΈ π
- The War for Talent π
- Playing to win π
- Zero to One π
- Software Engineering Economics π
- The Mythical Man-Month π
- Tribal Leadership π
- The Innovator's Dilemma π
- The Innovator's DNA π
- Your Strategy Needs a Strategy π
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany π
- The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development π
- Customers for Life π
- Async Remote π
- Decisive π
- The Goal π
- βοΈ Theory of Constraints π
- βοΈ Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation π
- Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance π
- What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-Smart Executive π
- Creating a Software Engineering Culture π
- β The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You π
- Software, Faster π
- Better Software Faster π
- The 4 Disciplines of Execution π
- The Princilples of Product Development Flow π
- β Mind of the Strategist: Business Planning for Competitive Advantage π
- Triad Power π
- The Geek Leader's Handbook π
- The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork π
- NoEstimates π
- Agile Estimating and Planning π
- Radical Candor π