Reads

📚 A list of physical books I own. Includes ratings!

If you have book recommendations for me, please create a Pull Request adding a link at the end of inbox.markdown.

Books I would like to read but I haven't purchased yet can be found on my Amazon wishlist.

Ratings

• 🌑 Haven't read yet
• 🌘 🌗 🌖 Reading progress
• 🌕 Finished reading, liked it
• 🌝 Wouldn't recommend
• 🌟 Loved it

Business

Businesses / Decisionmaking

• 🌟 Business Adventures _{Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street}
• 🌟 Only the Paranoid Survive
• 🌟 The Hard Thing About Hard Things _{Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers}
• 🌟 The Innovator’s Dilemma _{When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail}
• 🌟 The Lean Startup _{How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses}
• 🌟 Zero to One _{Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future}
• 🌕 Blitzscaling _{The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies}
• 🌕 Invent and Wander _{The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos}
• 🌕 Rework
• 🌕 Start-up Nation _{The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle}
• 🌕 The New Kingmakers _{How Developers Conquered the World}
• 🌕 The Year Without Pants _{WordPress.com and the Future of Work}
• 🌕 Thinking in Bets _{Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts}
• 🌑 Alibaba _{The House That Jack Ma Built}
• 🌑 Amazon Unbound _{Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire}
• 🌑 Billion Dollar Loser _{The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork}
• 🌑 Blue Ocean Strategy _{How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant}
• 🌑 Competing Against Luck _{The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice}
• 🌑 Good to Great _{Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't}
• 🌑 High Growth Handbook _{Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People}
• 🌑 The Big Score _{The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley}
• 🌑 The Business of Platforms _{Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power}
• 🌑 The Everything Store _{Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon}
• 🌑 The Undoing Project _{A Friendship That Changed Our Minds}

Leadership / Management

• 🌟 An Elegant Puzzle _{Systems of Engineering Management}
• 🌟 High Output Management
• 🌟 The Manager's Path _{A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change}
• 🌟 The Phoenix Project _{A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win}
• 🌕 On Managing People
• 🌕 The Making of a Manager _{What to Do When Everyone Looks to You}
• 🌕 Trillion Dollar Coach _{The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell}
• 🌕 Turn the Ship Around! _{A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders}
• 🌑 Hit Refresh _{The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone}
• 🌑 Reboot _{Leadership and the Art of Growing Up}
• 🌑 The Effective Executive _{The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done}
• 🌑 The Ride of a Lifetime _{Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company}

Teamwork

• 🌟 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team _{A Leadership Fable}
• 🌟 The Mythical Man-Month _{Essays on Software Engineering}
• 🌕 Peopleware _{Productive Projects and Teams}
• 🌑 Rapid Development _{Taming Wild Software Schedules}

Marketing / Sales / Negotiation

• 🌟 How to Win Friends & Influence People
• 🌕 Crossing the Chasm _{Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers}
• 🌕 Positioning _{The Battle for Your Mind}
• 🌕 The Win Without Pitching Manifesto

Capital

Economics / Capitalism / Money

• 🌟 A Random Walk Down Wall Street _{The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing}
• 🌟 Stubborn Attachments _{A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals}
• 🌗 Capital _{in the Twenty First Century}
• 🌑 Capitalism, Alone _{The Future of the System That Rules the World}
• 🌑 Freakonomics _{A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything}
• 🌑 Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
• 🌑 VC _{An American History}
• 🌑 Why Nations Fail _{The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty}

Payments / Crypto / DeFi

• 🌕 Payments Systems in the U.S. _{A Guide for the Payments Professional}
• 🌑 Bank 4.0 _{Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bank}
• 🌑 Electronic Value Exchange _{Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System}
• 🌑 The Anatomy of the Swipe _{Making Money Move}
• 🌑 The Internet of Money, Vol I _{A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos}
• 🌑 The Internet of Money, Vol II _{A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos}
• 🌑 The Internet of Money, Vol III _{A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos}

Software

Development Philosophy

• 🌟 The Pragmatic Programmer _{From Journeyman to Master}
• 🌕 Getting Real _{The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application}
• 🌕 Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• 🌕 The Clean Coder _{A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers}
• 🌝 Becoming a Technical Leader _{An Organic Problem-Solving Approach}
• 🌑 Clean Code _{A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship}
• 🌑 Domain-Driven Design _{Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software}

Algorithms

• 🌟 Programming Pearls
• 🌕 Hacker's Delight
• 🌕 Head First Design Patterns
• 🌗 Code Complete _{A Practical Handbook of Software Construction}

AI

• 🌟 Programming Collective Intelligence _{Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications}

Databases / Search

• 🌟 Elasticsearch _{The Definitive Guide}
• 🌕 Understanding MySQL Internals
• 🌕 NoSQL Distilled _{A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence}

Programming Languages

• 🌕 JavaScript: The Good Parts
• 🌕 Programming Elixir _{Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun}
• 🌑 Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
• 🌑 Beginning Ruby _{From Novice to Professional}
• 🌑 Eloquent JavaScript _{A Modern Introduction to Programming}
• 🌑 Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! _{A Beginner's Guide}
• 🌑 Learning Python
• 🌑 The Art of UNIX Programming

Compilers

• 🌕 CLR via C#
• 🌕 Mastering Regular Expressions
• 🌘 Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

Web Performance

• 🌟 High Performance Browser Networking _{What every web developer should know about networking and web performance}
• 🌑 Designing for Performance _{Weighing Aesthetics and Speed}
• 🌑 Even Faster Web Sites _{Performance Best Practices for Web Developers}
• 🌑 High Performance JavaScript _{Build Faster Web Application Interfaces}
• 🌑 High Performance Web Sites _{Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers}

Experience / Design

User Experience / Interaction Design / Usability

• 🌟 About Face _{The Essentials of Interaction Design (3rd edition)}
• 🌟 Don't Make Me Think _{A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability}
• 🌟 The Design of Everyday Things
• 🌟 The Inmates Are Running the Asylum _{Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity}
• 🌕 Defensive Design for the Web _{How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points}
• 🌝 Lean UX _{Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience}
• 🌑 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Web Design

• 🌕 CSS Secrets _{Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems}

Product Design

• 🌟 Inspired _{How To Create Products Customers Love}
• 🌕 Hooked _{How to Build Habit-Forming Products}

Art / Architecture / Design

• 🌟 The Accidental Masterpiece _{On the Art of Life and Vice Versa}
• 🌟 What Are You Looking At? _{The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art}
• 🌕 How Buildings Learn _{What Happens After They're Built}

Broader Interests

On Thinking / Behavioralism / Way of Life

• 🌟 Antifragile _{Things That Gain from Disorder}
• 🌟 Man's Search for Meaning
• 🌟 Thinking, Fast and Slow
• 🌕 Search Inside Yourself _{The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)}
• 🌕 Tao Te Ching
• 🌕 The Art of Learning _{An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance}
• 🌗 Gödel, Escher, Bach _{An Eternal Golden Braid}
• 🌑 Letters from a Stoic
• 🌑 Meditations
• 🌑 Scientific Freedom _{The Elixir of Civilization}
• 🌑 The Art of Doing Science and Engineering _{Learning to Learn}
• 🌑 The Daily Stoic _{366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living}
• 🌑 The Happiness Hypothesis _{Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom}
• 🌑 The Upside of Stress _{Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It}

On Writing

• 🌟 The Sense of Style _{The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century}
• 🌑 Nicely Said _{Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose}
• 🌑 On Writing Well _{The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction}

Personalities / Inspiration

• 🌟 Countdown to Zero Day _{Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon}
• 🌟 Masters of Doom _{How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture}
• 🌟 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! _{Adventures of a Curious Character}
• 🌕 Elon Musk _{Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future}
• 🌕 Empires of Light _{Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World}
• 🌕 Ghost in the Wires _{My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker}
• 🌕 Nikola Tesla: My Inventions
• 🌕 Weaving the Web _{The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web}
• 🌑 Chaos Monkeys _{Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley}
• 🌑 Dealers of Lightning _{Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age}
• 🌑 Outliers _{The Story of Success}
• 🌑 The Cathedral & the Bazaar _{Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary}
• 🌑 The Dream Machine _{J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal}

Sciences

• 🌟 A Brief History of Time
• 🌟 Life's Edge _{The Search for What It Means to Be Alive}
• 🌟 The Selfish Gene
• 🌕 Sapiens _{A Brief History of Humankind}
• 🌗 On the Origin of Species
• 🌑 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding _{and Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh}
• 🌑 Entangled Life _{How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures}
• 🌑 Lifespan _{The Revolutionary Science of Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To}
• 🌑 Reality Is Not What It Seems _{The Journey to Quantum Gravity}
• 🌑 Why We Sleep _{Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams}

Politics / History

• 🌑 SPQR _{A History of Ancient Rome}
• 🌑 The Dictator's Handbook _{Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics}
• 🌑 The Powerful and the Damned <subPrivate Diaries in Turbulent Times
• 🌑 The Wires of War _{Technology and the Global Struggle for Power}

Education / Culture

• 🌕 The Culture Map _{Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business}
• 🌑 Difficult Conversations
• 🌑 How Children Fail
• 🌑 Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life _{Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships}
• 🌑 Prepared _{What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life}

Novels

• 🌕 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• 🌑 A Confederacy of Dunces
• 🌑 Animal Farm and 1984

Comics / Casual Reads

• 🌕 xkcd: volume 0
• 🌑 Thing Explainer _{Complicated Stuff in Simple Words}