/booklist

My personal list of non-fiction books I am planning to read. If you have something to suggest feel free to make a PR.

Booklist

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.

  • πŸ“– is a link to goodreads/amazon/etc
  • ⭐️ high-priority books to be read first
  • ‼️ books you do not want to miss

Here is a list of book summary services/websites in case you need it:

Uncategorized

  • Lisp Hackers πŸ“–
  • ⭐ What if πŸ“–
  • The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets πŸ“–
  • A short history of nearly everything πŸ“–
  • Werner Siemens πŸ“–
  • 33 ΡΡ‚ΡƒΠΏΠ΅Π½ΡŒΠΊΠΈ Π² Π½Π΅Π±ΠΎ πŸ“–
  • A Mathematicians Miscellany πŸ“–
  • A Little Life πŸ“–
  • Confessions of a Terrible Husband: Lessons Learned From a Lumpy Couch πŸ“–

Thinking & Decision Making

  • ⭐ The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving πŸ“–
  • A Leaders Framework for Decision Making πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ The Art of Thinking Clearly πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️️ ‼️ How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking πŸ“–
  • ️⭐️ The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Systems Thinking Made Simple πŸ“–
  • ️⭐️ Thinking in Systems: A Primer πŸ“–
  • БистСмноинТСнСрноС ΠΌΡ‹ΡˆΠ»Π΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅ πŸ“–
  • Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ The Book Of Why πŸ“–

Learning

  • ⭐️ Make it stick: the Science of Successful Learning πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Mastery πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Pragmatic Thinkig and Learning πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ From Novice to Expert πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity πŸ“–

Philosophy

  • ⭐ The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well πŸ“–
  • ⭐ The Little Book of Lykke πŸ“–
  • ‼️ A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic JoyπŸ“–
  • ‼️ The Choice πŸ“–
  • ⭐ Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less πŸ“–
  • The Tao of Pooh πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️️ The Tao of Physics πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️ The Web of Life πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️ Meditations πŸ“–
  • Letters from a Stoic πŸ“–
  • Dialogues and Essays πŸ“–
  • The Myth of Sisyphus πŸ“–
  • The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt πŸ“–
  • The Tides of Mind πŸ“–
  • ‼️ A Little History of Philosophy πŸ“–

Mindset Enhancement

  • ‼️ Learned Optimism πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️️ ‼️ Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy πŸ“–
  • ‼️ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People πŸ“–
  • ‼️ The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a Fuck πŸ“–
  • ‼️ Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ πŸ“–
  • ‼️ Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy πŸ“–
  • Think and Grow Rich πŸ“–
  • ΠšΡ€Π°ΡΠ½Π°Ρ Ρ‚Π°Π±Π»Π΅Ρ‚ΠΊΠ° πŸ“–
  • Winter Blues πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️ The Art Of Loving πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Search Inside Yourself πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️️ ‼️ The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Fooled by Randomness πŸ“–
  • ️⭐️ The Wisdom of Crowds πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Lean Mindset πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️ Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Willpower Instinct πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Mindset: The New Psychology of Success πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Parenting with Presence πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Secret of Quantum Living πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Predictably Irrational πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Habits of a Happy Brain πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ A Short Guide to a Happy Life πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Are your lights on? πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Games People Play πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Selfish Gene πŸ“–
  • An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments πŸ“–
  • The Righteous Mind πŸ“–
  • The Sovereign Individual πŸ“–
  • Mindfulness for Beginners πŸ“–
  • The Defining Decade πŸ“–
  • АпгрСйд ΠΎΠ±Π΅Π·ΡŒΡΠ½Ρ‹ πŸ“–
  • Elite minds πŸ“–
  • The Political Brain πŸ“–
  • Speeches that Changed the World πŸ“–
  • Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer πŸ“–
  • Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership πŸ“–
  • Mind Power Into the 21st Century πŸ“–
  • The Organized Mind πŸ“–
  • The Art of Possibility πŸ“–
  • Joy Inc. πŸ“–
  • Hard Thing About Hard Things πŸ“–
  • First Impressions: You Don’t Know About How Others See You πŸ“–
  • Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Do The Work πŸ“–
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking πŸ“–
  • Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management πŸ“–
  • The 1% Rule πŸ“–
  • Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception πŸ“–
  • Developer Hegemony πŸ“–
  • ️️️⭐️ Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective πŸ“–

Social Skills

  • ️‼️ Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most πŸ“–
  • ‼️ How to win friends and influence people πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️️ ‼️ The Social Skills Guidebook πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️️ ‼️ People Skills πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Crucial Conversations πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Getting Past No πŸ“–
  • ⭐ Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life πŸ“–
  • Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time πŸ“–
  • ⭐‼️ Non Violent Communication πŸ“–
  • Dynamic People Skills πŸ“–

UX & Design

  • ‼️ Badass: Making Users Awesome πŸ“–
  • ‼️ Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products πŸ“–
  • ‼️ Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences πŸ“–
  • Design for Hackers πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ The Humane Interface πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ The Design of Everyday Things πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Non-Designer's Design Book, The, 4th Edition πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Seductive Interaction Design πŸ“–
  • Designing Web Interfaces. Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions πŸ“–
  • UX for Lean Startups πŸ“–
  • Design For business πŸ“–
  • Design: creation of artifacts in society πŸ“–

Coaching & Teaching

  • The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ HBR Guide to Coaching Employees πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ What Got You Here Won't Get You There πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Coaching for Performance πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Free To Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The New Education πŸ“–
  • Open: How We’ll Work, Live and Learn In The Future πŸ“–
  • A Mathematician’s Lament πŸ“–

Health

Science

  • ⭐️ ‼️ The Sciences of the Artificial, Third Edition πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces πŸ“–
  • ️⭐️ The art and craft of problem solving πŸ“–
  • ️⭐️ Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Paradoxes of Growth: Laws of Global Development of Humanity πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ A New Kind Of Science πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality πŸ“–
  • A Brief History of Time πŸ“–
  • Sapiens πŸ“–
  • Alice in Quantumland πŸ“–
  • The annotated Turing πŸ“–
  • Entropy πŸ“–
  • Π—ΠΎΠ»ΠΎΡ‚ΠΎΠΉ Π±ΠΈΠ»Π΅Ρ‚. P, NP ΠΈ Π³Ρ€Π°Π½ΠΈΡ†Ρ‹ Π²ΠΎΠ·ΠΌΠΎΠΆΠ½ΠΎΠ³ΠΎ πŸ“–
  • Scale πŸ“–
  • Smart Spacetime πŸ“–

Engineering & Programming

  • ⭐️ ‼️ Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs πŸ“–
  • ‼️ Release it! πŸ“–
  • ‼️ Practical Object-Oriented Desing with Ruby πŸ“–
  • Building Microservices πŸ“–
  • ‼️ The Passionate Programmer πŸ“–
  • ‼️ Soft Skills πŸ“–
  • ‼️ ️Clean Code πŸ“–
  • ‼️️ Head First Design Patterns πŸ“–
  • ‼️ The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master πŸ“–
  • Clean Architecture πŸ“–
  • Domain Driven Design Distilled πŸ“–
  • How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything πŸ“–
  • Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win πŸ“–
  • ⭐ ‼️ Basic Category Theory πŸ“–
  • ⭐ ‼️ The Art of Doing Science and Engineering πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️️ Domain Modeling Made Functional πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️️ High Performance Browser Networking πŸ“–
  • ⭐ High Performance JavaScript πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️️ Structured Computer Organization πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️ ‼️️️ Grokking Algorithms πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Programming Beyond Practices πŸ“–
  • ⭐ Thinking Forth πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Site Reliability Engineering πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Working Effectively with Legacy Code πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Object-Oriented Software Construction (2nd Edition) πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Designing Data-Intensive Applications πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The nature of software development πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Algorithm Design Manual 2nd Edition πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Functional and Reactive Data Modelling πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Domain Driven Design Quickly πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Software Engineering, 9th edition πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ SWEBOK πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Software Estimation: demistifying the black art πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Elements of Programming Style πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Smalltalk best practices πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Type Driven Development with Idris πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Growing Object Oriented Software with Tests πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Production Ready Microservices πŸ“–
  • ⭐ Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model πŸ“–
  • ⭐ 99 Bottles of OOP πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed πŸ“–
  • ⭐ Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++
  • ⭐ Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts πŸ“–
  • ⭐ Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming πŸ“–
  • ⭐ Getting Clojure πŸ“–
  • TypeScript Deep Dive πŸ“–
  • How Google Tests Software πŸ“–
  • Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks πŸ“–
  • The Imposter's Handbook πŸ“–
  • Haskell Book πŸ“–
  • Why Programs Fail πŸ“–
  • The Art of Readable Code πŸ“–
  • The Inmates are Running the Asylum πŸ“–
  • Resilient Web Design πŸ“–
  • Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software πŸ“–
  • JavaScript: The Good Parts πŸ“–
  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture πŸ“–
  • Enterprise Integration Patterns πŸ“–
  • Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications πŸ“–
  • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code πŸ“–
  • Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) πŸ“–
  • Purely Functional Data Structures πŸ“–
  • Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition πŸ“–
  • The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code πŸ“–
  • Code Simplicity πŸ“–
  • Category Theory πŸ“–
  • Concurrent Programming in ML πŸ“–
  • Feature-Oriented Software Product Lines πŸ“–
  • DevOps Handbook πŸ“–
  • Continuos Delivery πŸ“–
  • Clojure for Brave and True πŸ“–
  • Clojure Reactive Programming πŸ“–
  • Web Development with Clojure πŸ“–
  • Exploratory Software Testing πŸ“–
  • Testing Computer Software πŸ“–
  • Software Architecture For Developers πŸ“–
  • Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline πŸ“–
  • Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days πŸ“–
  • A Philosophy of Software Design πŸ“–
  • Design it! πŸ“–
  • Building Evolutionary Architectures πŸ“–
  • Programming In Martin LΓΆf's Type Theory: An Introduction πŸ“–
  • The Zen Programmer πŸ“–
  • The Tao of Microservices πŸ“–
  • ⭐ Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming πŸ“–
  • Human Factors for Engineers πŸ“–

Career, Skill Acquisition, Personal Growth

  • ‼️ Thinking, Fast and Slow πŸ“–
  • ‼️ Getting Things Done (2015 edition) πŸ“–
  • ‼️ Deep Work πŸ“–
  • Make the Most of Your Mind πŸ“–
  • So Good They Can't Ignore You πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Work rules! πŸ“–
  • ΠšΠ°ΠΌΠ°ΡΡƒΡ‚Ρ€Π° для ΠΎΡ€Π°Ρ‚ΠΎΡ€Π° πŸ“–
  • Из связСй Π² князи πŸ“–
  • How to Do What You Love & Earn What You’re Worth as a Programmer πŸ“–
  • 80000 hours: Career Guide πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise πŸ“–
  • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers πŸ“–
  • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear πŸ“–
  • ΠŸΡ€ΠΎΠ³Ρ€Π°ΠΌΠΌΠΈΡ€ΠΎΠ²Π°Π½ΠΈΠ΅. Π‘Ρ‚ΡƒΠΏΠ΅Π½ΠΈ ΡƒΡΠΏΠ΅ΡˆΠ½ΠΎΠΉ ΠΊΠ°Ρ€ΡŒΠ΅Ρ€Ρ‹ πŸ“–
  • The 4 Hour Work Week πŸ“–
  • The 48 Laws of Power πŸ“–
  • Fearless salary negotiation πŸ“–
  • The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) πŸ“–
  • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience πŸ“–
  • The First 20 hours πŸ“–
  • Better than Before πŸ“–
  • Drive πŸ“–
  • The Start-up of You πŸ“–
  • The Denial of Death πŸ“–
  • When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing πŸ“–
  • Million Dollar Consulting πŸ“–
  • The Effective Engineer πŸ“–
  • The Professional: A Manifesto for Business in the 21st Century πŸ“–
  • Cracking the PM Interview πŸ“–

Habits & Lifestyle

Finance

  • ⭐️ ‼️ Your Money or Your Life πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ If you can: how millenials can get rich slowly πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Little Book of Common Sense Investing πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ All about Asset Allocation πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Debunking Economics πŸ“–
  • The intelligent investor πŸ“–
  • The Intelligent Asset Allocator πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Four Pillars of Investing πŸ“–
  • Π’Π°ΡˆΠΈ дСньги Π΄ΠΎΠ»ΠΆΠ½Ρ‹ Ρ€Π°Π±ΠΎΡ‚Π°Ρ‚ΡŒ πŸ“–
  • The Undercover Economist πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ How to Think About Money πŸ“–

Manliness

Marketing & Sales

  • ⭐️ Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Пиши, Π‘ΠΎΠΊΡ€Π°Ρ‰Π°ΠΉ πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling πŸ“–
  • The Burned-Out Blogger's Guide to PR πŸ“–
  • ‼️ Crossing the Chasm πŸ“–
  • ‼️ Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ The Professional Marketer πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️️ 15 invaluable laws of growth πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️️ The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Difference πŸ“–
  • Purple Cow: Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable πŸ“–

Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategy

  • ‼️ The Secrets of Consulting πŸ“–
  • The Lean Startup πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The 100$ Startup πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ E-myth revisited πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The ten day MBA πŸ“–
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team πŸ“–
  • НС ΠΌΠ΅ΡˆΠ°ΠΉΡ‚Π΅ ΠΌΠ½Π΅ Ρ€Π°Π±ΠΎΡ‚Π°Ρ‚ΡŒ πŸ“–
  • ⭐ Good to Great πŸ“–
  • ⭐ Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture πŸ“–
  • ⭐ ‼️ The art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ ‼️ Five languages of appreciation πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Advantage πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable πŸ“–
  • ⭐️️️ ‼️ Antifragile πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ More Fearless Change πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Flawless Consulting πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Peopleware πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Deadline πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ First, Break All the Rules πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Richest Man in Babylon πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Extreme Programming Explained πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Professional Software Development πŸ“–
  • Rework πŸ“–
  • Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide πŸ“–
  • ⭐ The Manager's Path πŸ“–
  • Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager πŸ“–
  • Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed πŸ“–
  • ΠšΠΎΠ½Ρ‚Π΅Π½Ρ‚-тСхнология: ΠΊΠ°ΠΊ, Π³Π΄Π΅ ΠΈ ΠΎ Ρ‡Π΅ΠΌ Π³ΠΎΠ²ΠΎΡ€ΠΈΡ‚ΡŒ с ΠΊΠ»ΠΈΠ΅Π½Ρ‚Π°ΠΌΠΈ πŸ“–
  • The War for Talent πŸ“–
  • Playing to win πŸ“–
  • Zero to One πŸ“–
  • Software Engineering Economics πŸ“–
  • The Mythical Man-Month πŸ“–
  • Tribal Leadership πŸ“–
  • The Innovator's Dilemma πŸ“–
  • The Innovator's DNA πŸ“–
  • Your Strategy Needs a Strategy πŸ“–
  • The Four Steps to the Epiphany πŸ“–
  • The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development πŸ“–
  • Customers for Life πŸ“–
  • Async Remote πŸ“–
  • Decisive πŸ“–
  • The Goal πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Theory of Constraints πŸ“–
  • ⭐️ Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation πŸ“–
  • Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance πŸ“–
  • What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-Smart Executive πŸ“–
  • Creating a Software Engineering Culture πŸ“–
  • ⭐ The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You πŸ“–
  • Software, Faster πŸ“–
  • Better Software Faster πŸ“–
  • The 4 Disciplines of Execution πŸ“–
  • The Princilples of Product Development Flow πŸ“–
  • ⭐ Mind of the Strategist: Business Planning for Competitive Advantage πŸ“–
  • Triad Power πŸ“–
  • The Geek Leader's Handbook πŸ“–
  • The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork πŸ“–
  • NoEstimates πŸ“–
  • Agile Estimating and Planning πŸ“–
  • Radical Candor πŸ“–

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