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Books that are important to my professional & personal goals. These are physical copies, I do not include e-books here nor any blogs. Technical, non-fiction, self-growth, business (+1 fiction). Reading list properly tracked from 2016.


Finished reading

In 2017

# Author Title Publisher
20 Greg Sidelnikov React.js Book Independently published
19 Jeremy Sydik Design Accessible Web Sites: 36 Keys to Creating Content for All Audiences and Platforms Pragmatic Bookshelf
18 Kirupa Chinnathambi Learning React Addison Wesley
17 Alex Becker 10 Pillars of Wealth: Mind-Sets of the World's Wealthiest People Brown Books Publishing
16 Manuel Kiessling The Node Beginner Book lulu.com
15 Rolf Dobelli The Art of Thinking Clearly Sceptre
14 Kyle Simpson You Don't Know JS: Types & Grammar O'Reilly Media
13 Grant Cardone Be Obsessed or Be Average Portfolio
12 Grant Cardone The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure John Wiley & Sons
11 Kyle Simpson You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes O'Reilly Media
10 Shane Snow Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking HarperBusiness
09 Kyle Simpson You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures O'Reilly Media
08 John Resig Pro JavaScript Techniques Apress
07 Kyle Simpson You Don't Know JS: Up & Going O'Reilly Media
06 Toni Negrino and Dori Smith JavaScript (Ninth Edition) Peachpit Press
05 Marijn Haverbeke Eloquent JavaScript (Second Edition) No Starch Press
04 Ka Wai Cheung The Developer's Code The Pragmatic Bookshelf
03 Mark Myers A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript Amazon
02 Benjamin P. Hardy Slipstream Time Hacking Amazon
01 Nicholas Bate You, only better Capstone

In 2016

# Author Title Publisher
19 Wallace D. Wattles Financial Success Destiny Books
18 Win Wenger The Einstein Factor Three Valleys Press
17 Chad Fowler The Passionate Programmer The Pragmatic Bookshelf
16 Amen Sharma The Google Checklist: Marketing Edition 2016 CreateSpace
15 Amen Sharma, Gareth James, Romeo Martin J. Rosales, Rumena Begum Blogging Made Easy CreateSpace
14 Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg How Google Works John Murray
13 Andy Hunt & Venkat Subramaniam Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World The Pragmatic Bookshelf
12 Andy Hunt Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware The Pragmatic Bookshelf
11 Leif Kendall Brilliant Freelancer: Discover the Power of Your Own Success Pearson
10 David Kadavy Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty Wiley
09 Tiffany B Brown CSS Master SitePoint
08 Travis Swicegood Pragmatic Guide to Git The Pragmatic Bookshelf
07 John Sonmez Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual Manning
06 Andrew Hunt & David Thomas The Pragmatic Programmer - from journeyman to master Addison-Wesley
05 Hampton Catlin and Michael Lintorn Catlin Pragmatic Guide to Sass The Pragmatic Bookshelf
04 Steve Krug Don't Make Me Think (Revisited) - A Common Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Usability New Riders
04 Lea Verou CSS Secrets - better solutions to everyday web design problems O'Reilly
03 Steven Bradley CSS Animations and Transitions for the Modern Web Adobe Press
02 Peter Bell and Brent Beer Introducing GitHub O'Reilly
01 Rob Cole and Edward Scotcher Brilliant Agile Project Management Pearson

Before 2016 (incomplete)

Author Title Publisher
Jay Blanchard jQuery & jQuery UI Peachpit Press
Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop HTML5 and CSS3 (Seventh Edition) Peachpit Press
Leil Lowndes How to Talk to Anyone Harper Element

Skimmed and/or skipped and/or paused

Possible reasons:

  • (Momentarily) uninteresting topic
  • The writing style doesn't work for me
  • The knowledge included has to be preceded by other skills before moving onto it

2017

Author Title Publisher
Paul McKenna Change Your Life in 7 Days Bantam Press
Robert Kelsey What's stopping you? Capstone
Antony Mayfield Me and my web shadow A & C Black

2016

Author Title Publisher
Steve McConnell Software Project Survival Guide (Developer Best Practices) Microsoft Press

Reading now:

Author Title Publisher
Wladston Ferreira Filho, Raimondo Pictet Computer Science Distilled Code Energy
Kyle Simpson You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance O'Reilly Media
Robert C. Martin Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Prentice Hall

Yet to be read / finished / buffer:

Author Title Publisher
Nicholas C. Zakas Understanding ECMAScript 6: The Definitive Guide for JavaScript Developers No Starch Press
Marc Wandschneider Learning Node.js Addison Wesley
Kyle Simpson You Don't Know JS: ES6 & Beyond O'Reilly Media
Justin Gehtland, Ben Galbraith, Dion Almaer Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Larry Ullman PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites (Fourth Edition) Peachpit Press
Larry Ullman PHP Advanced And Object-Oriented Programming Peachpit Press
GM Weinberg Understanding the Professional Programmer John Wiley & Sons
Bill Hetzel The Complete Guide to Software Testing John Wiley & Sons
Edwin A. Abbott Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Dover Publications
Marc Lawson & Steve Hackney Why Businesses Stop Growing AFT Publishing
Leil Lowndes How to Feel Confident Harper Element
Dan Ariely Irrationally Yours Harper Perennial
Richard Reeves, John Knell The 80 Minute MBA Business Plus
Michael Dawson Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner (Third Edition) Course Technology PTR

On the way...

Author Title Publisher
none atm

Books that seem interesting / Wishlist

Must haves

Author Title Publisher
Robert C. Martin The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers Prentice Hall
Donald A. Norman The Design of Everyday Things, revised and expanded edition
Nicholas C. Zakas Professional JavaScript for Web Developers Wrox

JS

Author Title Publisher
Andrea Giammarchi JavaScript glossary on demand lulu.com
Tim Ambler, Nicholas Cloud JavaScript Frameworks for Modern Web Dev Apress
Mark E. Daggett Expert JavaScript Apress
Den Odell Pro JavaScript Development: Coding, Capabilities, and Tooling Apress
Arjan Egges Building JavaScript Games: for Phones, Tablets, and Desktop Apress
Trevor Burnham Async JavaScript: Build More Responsive Apps with Less Code The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Stoyan Stefanov JavaScript Patterns O'Reilly
Jon Duckett JavaScript & JQuery: Interactive Front-end Web Development John Wiley & Sons
Jeremy Keith DOM Scripting: Web Design With Javascript and the Document Object Model friendsofED
Douglas Crockford JavaScript: The Good Parts O'Reilly
Larry Ullman Modern JavaScript: Develop and Design Peachpit Press
Shane Hudson JavaScript Creativity: Exploring the Modern Capabilities of JavaScript and HTML5 Apress
Addy Osmani Learning JavaScript Design Patterns O'Reilly Media
David Herman Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript Addison Wesley
Reginald Braithwaite Javascript Allongé Only kindle edition Justin Kelly
Earle Castledine, Craig Sharkie jQuery: Novice to Ninja SitePoint

React.JS

Author Title Publisher
Alex Banks, Eve Porcello Learning React: Functional Web Development with React and Flux O'Reilly
Vasan Subramanian Pro MERN Stack: Full Stack Web App Development with Mongo, Express, React, and Node Apress
Michele Bertoli React Design Patterns and Best Practices Packt Publishing
Adam Boduch React and React Native Packt Publishing
Bonnie Eisenman Learning React Native: Building Native Mobile Apps with JavaScript O'Reilly Media
Stoyan Stefanov React: Up & Running: Building Web Applications O'Reilly Media
Cassio de Sousa Antonio Pro React Apress
Eric Masiello, Jacob Friedmann Mastering React Native Packt Publishing

Node.JS

Author Title Publisher
Guillermo Rauch Smashing Node.Js: JavaScript Everywhere John Wiley & Sons
David Herron Node.js Web Development - Third Edition Packt Publishing
Jim R. Wilson Node.js the Right Way The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Mike Cantelon, Marc Harter, TJ Holowaychuk, Nathan Rajlich Node.js in Action Manning Publications

Computing

Author Title Publisher
Max Kanat-Alexander Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software O'Reilly Media
David Platt The Joy of UX: User Experience and Interactive Design for Developers Addison Wesley
Juho Tuomas Vepsäläinen, Jesús Rodríguez Rodríguez, Artem Sapegin, Pedr Browne, Tobias Koppers SurviveJS - Webpack: From apprentice to master 978-952-68688
Andy Budd, Emil Björklund CSS Mastery Apress
Ian Miell, Aidan Hobson Sayers Docker in Practice Manning Publications
Jeff Nickoloff Docker in Action
David Cochran, Ian Whitley Bootstrap Site Blueprints Packt Publishing
Harold Abelson Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Harold Abelson
Gregory Brown Programming Beyond Practices O′Reilly
Steve McConnell Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction Microsoft Press
Jeremy Baines, Clive Howard UX Lifecycle: The business guide to implementing great software user experiences CreateSpace
Joe Kutner The Healthy Programmer: Get Fit, Feel Better, and Keep Coding The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Joshua D. Carter New Programmer's Survival Manual The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Brian P. Hogan, Chris Warren, Mike Weber, Chris Johnson Web Development Recipes The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Johanna Rothman, Esther Derby Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Ken Pugh Interface Oriented Design: With Patterns The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Andy Lester Land the Tech Job You Love The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Lukas Mathis Designed for Use: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Eewei Chen 101 Design Ingredients to Solve Big Tech Problems The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Aditya Bhargava Grokking Algorithms Manning Publications
Brian P. Hogan Exercises for Programmers: 57 Challenges to Develop Your Coding Skills The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Mark C. Chu-Caroll Good Math: A Geek's Guide to the Beauty of Numbers, Logic, and Computation
Hampton Lintorn Catlin, Michael Lintorn Catlin Pragmatic Guide to Sass 3 The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Cory Berg Software++: Must-Have Skills For Software Engineers CreateSpace
Glenford J. Myers, Corey Sandler, Tom Badgett The Art of Software Testing John Wiley & Sons
David West Object Thinking Microsoft Press
Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means XML in a Nutshell O'Reilly
Joshua Kerievsky Refactoring to Patterns Addison Wesley
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
T Cormen, C Leiserson, R Rivest Introduction to Algorithms
Eric Evans Domain-driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Martin Fowler Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Dustin Boswell The Art of Readable Code
Andy Oram, Greg Wilson Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
Gayle Laakmann McDowell Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions CareerCup
J Clark Scott But How Do It Know?
Charles Petzold Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software Golden Krishna
Jesse James Garrett The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond
Alan Cooper About Face: the Essentials of Interface Design
Jaime Levy UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want
Jenifer Tidwell Designing Interfaces
Ellen Lupton Thinking with Type, Second Revised and Expanded Edition Princeton Architectural Press
Mike Kuniavsky, Elizabeth Goodman, Andrea Moed Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research Morgan Kaufmann
Martina Schell, James O'Brien Communicating the UX Vision: 13 Anti-Patterns That Block Good Ideas Morgan Kaufmann
Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith, Trish Papadakos Value Proposition Design John Wiley & Sons
Jon Kolko Thoughts on Interaction Design Morgan Kaufmann
William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated Rockport
Caroline Jarrett Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability
Jeff Gothelf Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience
Lara Callender Hogan Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed O'Reilly
Sandro Mancuso The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride
Steve Krug Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-it-yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
Geoff Watts Scrum Mastery: From Good To Great Servant-Leadership
James Shore The Art of Agile Development
Kenneth S. Rubin Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process
Susan Weinschenk 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People: What Makes Them Tick?
Peter Morville Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites O'Reilly
Peter Morville Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
Abby Covert How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
Liam Veitch Stop Thinking Like a Freelancer: The Evolution of a $1m Web Designer CreateSpace

Business, soft-skills, psychology, infrastructure, etc.

Author Title Publisher
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions William Collins
Jeff Goins Real Artists Don't Starve Thomas Nelson
Daniel Levitin The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload Penguin
David Allen Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity Piatkus
Garr Reynolds Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery New Riders
Olivia Fox Cabane The Charisma Myth: Master the Art of Personal Magnetism Portfolio Penguin
Charles Duhigg The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change Random House Books
Benedict Carey How We Learn: Throw out the rule book and unlock your brain's potential Macmillan
Gary Klein Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Charles Seife Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Souvenir Press Ltd
Rob Eastaway, Jeremy Wyndham Why Do Buses Come in Threes?: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life Robson Books Ltd
James Gleick Chaos: Making a New Science Vintage
Alex Bellos Alex Through the Looking Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers, and Numbers Reflect Life Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions William Collins
Keith Devlin Mathematics: The New Golden Age Penguin
Tim Marhsall Prisoners of Geography Elliott & Thompson Limited
Nick Bostrom Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies OUP Oxford
Calum Chace The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism Three Cs
Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Vintage
Christophe Galfard The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond Pan
Carlo Rovelli Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Penguin
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets Penguin
Marcus Du Sautoy Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature Harper Perennial
Marcus Du Sautoy How to Count to Infinity Quercus
Marcus Du Sautoy Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry HarperPerennial
Marcus Du Sautoy The Music of the Primes: Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters HarperPerennial
Marcus Du Sautoy The Number Mysteries Fourth Estate
Marcus Du Sautoy What We Cannot Know: From consciousness to the cosmos, the cutting edge of science explained Fourth Estate
Marcus Du Sautoy The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science Viking
Gary Keller, Jay Papasan The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results John Murray Learning
M. J. DeMarco The Millionaire Fastlane Viperion Publishing
Tony Robbins Unlimited Power Simon & Schuster UK
Tony Robbins Awaken The Giant Within Simon & Schuster UK
Tony Robbins Money Master the Game Simon & Schuster UK
Tony Robbins Unshakeable: Your Guide to Financial Freedom Simon & Schuster UK
Dan Meredith How To Be F-cking Awesome Rethink Press Limited
Grant Cardone If You're Not First, You're Last John Wiley & Sons
Grant Cardone SELL OR BE SOLD
Julian Baggini The Pig That Wants to be Eaten: And Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments Granta Books
Mark Manson The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F-ck HarperOne
Sarah Knight Get Your Sh-t Together Quercus
Sarah Knight The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F--k Quercus
Ryan Tate The 20% Doctrine HarperBusiness
Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind Penguin
Dan Ariely Behavioural Economics Saved My Dog: Life Advice For The Imperfect Human Oneworld Publications
Dan Ariely The Upside of Irrationality Harper
Dan Ariely Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations Simon & Schuster UK
Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions HarperCollins
Adobe Creative Team Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book Adobe
Josh Waitzkin The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance Free Press
Simon Sinek Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't Portfolio Penguin
Simon Sinek Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action Penguin
Dan Sullivan The Laws of Lifetime Growth: Always Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Natalie Goldberg Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within Shambhala Publications
Benjamin P Hardy How to Consciously Design Your Ideal Future CreateSpace
Daniel H. Pink Drive Canongate Books
Carlo Rovelli Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Sir Roger Penrose The Road To Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Noson S. Yanofsky The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Matt Parker Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Dee Blick The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Book
Martin Amor The Idea in You: How to Find It, Build It, and Change Your Life
DC Gause Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really is
John Hands Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
Marshall Goldsmith Triggers: Sparking positive change and making it last
Darren Hardy The Compound Effect
Douglas R. Hofstadter Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Basic Books
Chip Heath Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck
Scott Adams How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Scott Adams God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
James Altucher Choose Yourself!
Joseph O'Connor, John Seymour Introducing NLP Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Rollo Tomassi The Rational Male
Robert A. Glover No More Mr Nice Guy
Jack Donovan Becoming a Barbarian
Jack Donovan The Way of Men
David Deida Way of the Superior Man
Tim Ferriss The 4-Hour Work Week
Tim Ferriss The 4-Hour Body
Ryan Holiday Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing and Advertising Profile
Greg McKeown Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Virgin Books
Michael Hyatt Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World Thomas Nelson
Atul Gawande The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Profile
Perry Marshall 80/20 Sales and Marketing
Brian Tracy Eat That Frog!: Get More of the Important Things Done - Today! Hodder Paperbacks
Kevin Kelly The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Steven Levy In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives Simon & Schuster
Kevin Warwick Artificial Intelligence: The Basics Routledge
Nick Bostrom Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies OUP Oxford
Steven Levy Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution O'Reilly
Maxwell Maltz The New Psycho-Cybernetics
Raymond Kurzweil The Singularity is Near Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Raymond Kurzweil How to Create a Mind Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

Infrastructure, architercure, urbanism

Author Title Publisher
Jeff Speck Walkable City North Point Press
Jahn Gehl Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space Island Press
Stephen Graham Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers Verso
David Rogers The Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age Columbia University Press
Ingrid Burrington Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure Melville House Publishing
Geoffrey West Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies W&N
Samuel Arbesman Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension Portfolio
David Macaulay Underground Houghton Mifflin
Edward Glaeser Triumph of the City Pan
Charles Montgomery Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design Penguin
Anthony M. Townsend Smart Cities - Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia W. W. Norton & Company
Deyan Sudjic The Language of Cities Penguin
Paul Dobraszczyk, Carlos Galviz, Bradley L. Garrett Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within Reaktion Books
Colin Ellard Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life Bellevue Literary Press
Geoff Manaugh A Burglar's Guide to the City FSG Originals
Claire Barratt Guide to Urban Engineering: Infrastructure and Technology in the Modern Landscape The History Press
Brian Hayes Infrastructure - A Guide to the Industrial Landscape W. W. Norton & Company
Ryan Gravel Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities St. Martin's Press
Scott Huler On the Grid Rodale Press
Kate Ascher Heights, The : Anatomy of a Skyscraper Penguin Books
Kate Ascher The Works: Anatomy of a City The Penguin Press

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