Reading List

I have a book list that I have collected from various sources. Almost all of these I have, and I have read. These are the ones I recommend.

Developers – General

• Aho & Ullman – Foundations Of Computer Science
• Jon Bentley – Programming Pearls
• Jason Cohen – Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review
• Chad Fowler – My Job Went To India And All I Got Was This Lousy Book
• Robert Glass – Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
• Hunt & Thomas – The Pragmatic Programmer
• Kernighan & Pike – The Practice Of Programming
• Kernighan & Plauger – The Elements Of Programming Style
• Kernighan & Plauger – Software Tools
• Thomas A. Limoncelli – Time-Management for System Administrators
• Steve Maguire – Writing Solid Code
• Steve Maguire – Debugging the Development Process
• Jim & Michele McCarthy – Dynamics Of Software Development
• Steve McConnell – Rapid Development
• Steve McConnell – Code Complete (both editions)
• Steve McConnell – Software Project Survival Guide
• Charles Petzold – Code
• PJ Plauger – Programming On Purpose
• SAM’s – Testing Computer Software
• Peter Seibel – Coders At Work
• Joel Spolsky – Joel On Software
• Joel Spolsky – More Joel On Software
• Joel Spolsky – Smart And Gets Things Done
• Joel Spolsky – Best Software Writing I
• Joel Spolsky – Best Software Writing II
• Bruce Schneier – Applied Cryptography 2nd Edition
• Subramaniam & Hunt – Practices of an Agile Developer
• Ed Yourdon – Death March
• Ed Yourdon – Classics In Software Engineering

Developers – Unix

• Donahoo & Calvert – The Pocket Guide to TCP/IP Sockets C Version
• Kernighan & Pike – The Unix Programming Environment
• Jerry Peek, Tim O’Reilly & Mike Loukides – UNIX Power Tools
• Eric Raymond – The Art Of Unix Programming
• Marc Rochkind – Advanced Unix Programming
• WR Stevens – Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
• WR Stevens – TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1
• WR Stevens – TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 2
• WR Stevens – Unix Network Programming

Developers – C

• Allen Holub – Enough Rope To Shoot Yourself In The Foot
• Werner Feibel – Using ANSI C In Unix
• Kernighan & Richie – The C Programming Language
• Kyle Loudon – Mastering Algorithms With C
• Steve Maguire – Writing Solid Code
• Henry Warren – Hacker’s Delight

Developers – Database

• Dyer – MySQL In A Nutshell
• Michael Hernandez – Database Design For Mere Mortals
• Michael Hernandez – SQL Queries For Mere Mortals

Developers – Perl

• Christiansen & Torkington – Perl Cookbook (Sheep Book)
• Damian Conway – Perl Best Practices
• Orwant, Hietaniemi & Macdonald – Mastering Algorithms with Perl
• Wall, Christiansen & Orwant – Programming Perl (Camel Book)

Developers – Python, Ruby and PHP

I need to expand this.

Developers – Tools

• Jeffrey Friedl – Mastering Regular Expressions
• O’Reilly – Version Control with Subversion

Design

• Alan Cooper – About Face (earlier editions)
• Alan Cooper – The Inmates are Running the Asylum
• Steve Krug – Don’t Make Me Think
• Philip Greenspun – Philip and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing
• Donald Norman – The Design of Everyday Things
• Joel Spolsky – User Interface Design for Programmers
• Bruce Tognazzini – Tog on Software Design
• Robin Williams – The Non-Designer’s Design Book

For managers

• Robert Austin – Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations
• Fred Brooks – The Mythical Man Month
• Tom DeMarco – Peopleware
• Michael Lopp – Managing Humans

For managing your life

• Dale Carnegie – How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Robert Cialdini – The Psychology of Persuasion
• Stephen Covey – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Fisher & Ury – Getting to Yes
• Ron Hale-Evans – Mind Performance Hacks (O’Reilly)
• Andy Hunt – Pragmatic Thinking & Learning – Refactor Your Wetware
• Burton Malkiel – A Random Walk Down Wall Street

For starting a business

• Robert Anthony – Essentials of Accounting
• Merrill Chapman – In Search of Stupidity (things to avoid)
• Michael Cusumano – The Business of Software
• Michael Gerber – The E-Myth Revisited
• Jeffrey Gitomer – The Little Red Book Of Selling
• Paul Hawken – Growing A Business
• Guy Kawasaki – The Art of the Start
• Jessica Livingston – Founders At Work
• Latzko & Saunders – Four Days with Dr. Deming
• Geoffrey Moore – Crossing the Chasm (marketing)
• Gerald Weinberg – The Secrets of Consulting

For navel-gazing

• Paul Graham – Hackers and Painters
• Eric Raymond – The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Clay Shirky – Here Comes Everybody
• Clay Shirky – Voices from the Net

Miscellaneous

• Emmanuel Goldstein – The Best of 2600 [A Hacker Odyssey]
• Clifford Stoll – The Cuckoo’s Egg
• Clifford Stoll – Silicon Snake Oil

History & Insider looks at businesses

(You can overdose on these, so I get them only if I can get them for a dollar
or two.)

• Tom Ashbrook – The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the
• Internet Gold Rush
• David Bank – How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft
• John Battelle – The Search (Google)
• Douglas Coupland – Microserfs (Microsoft)
• Robert Cringely – Accidental Empires
• Michael Cusumano – Competing on Internet Time (Netscape)
• Mike Daisey – 21 Dog Years (Amazon)
• Michael Dell – Direct from Dell
• Charles Ferguson – High Stakes, No Prisoners (FrontPage)
• Randy Hertzfeld – Revolution in the Valley (Mac)
• Eric Jackson – The Paypal Wars
• Kait & Weiss – Digital Hustlers
• Philip J. Kaplan – F’d Companies: Spectacular Dot-Com Flameouts
• Guy Kawasaki – The Macintosh Way
• Tracy Kidder – The Soul Of A New Machine
• David Kuo – dot.bomb
• Fred Lager – Ben & Jerry’s: The Inside Scoop
• Ross Laver – Random Excess (Corel)
• Tim Berners-Lee – Weaving the Web
• Michael Lewis – The New New Thing (SGI)
• James Marcus – Amazonia (Amazon)
• Quittner & Slatella – Speeding the Net (Netscape)
• Edgar Schein – DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC
• Robert Slater – Microsoft Rebooted
• Taylor, Schroeder & Doerr – Inside Intuit (Quicken)
• Linus Torvalds – Just For Fun
• Mike Wilson – The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison (Oracle)
• Michael Wolff – Burn Rate
• G Pascal Zachary – Showstopper! (Windows NT)