Reading List

My book recommendation list. Reading is one of my most cherished hobbies and one on which I invest a lot of time because it is very enriching. I am a great fan of Science Fiction and Fantasy, but am also open to more classical novel styles – only condition is that it is not a tragic story, because real life is tragic enough for us to waste more time reading tragic stories.

After reading I book, I try to write a short review about it, from my point of view. This list will be continuously updated as I add more material to my brain.

• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrary
• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
• Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman
• The Black Book
• The Little Book that Beats the Market
• The Book Thief
• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy
• The Passionate Programmer
• The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
• Making Money
• Rework
• Moving Pictures
• Small Gods
• Going Postal
• Stranger In A Strange Land
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Trilogy
• Fahrenheit 451
• Starship Troopers
• Neuromancer
• Childhood’s End
• I, Robot
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• Hyperion
• Rendezvous with Rama
• Outliers, The Story of Success
• Snuff
• The Appeal
• The Science of Discworld
• The God Delusion
• The Wee Free Men
• I Am A Strange Loop
• Thief of Time & Feet of Clay
• A Game of Thrones (Book one of A Song of Ice and Fire)
• A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
• Predictably Irrational
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• The China Study
• Hogfather
• And Then I Thought I Was a Fish
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• I Can See Clearly Now
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• The Journey
• Death is of Vital Importance
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
• Man’s Search for Meaning
• The 4-Hour Work Week
• Start with Why
• The Brain that Changes Itself
• Homo Deus
• The Dance of the Possible: The Mostly Honest Completely Irreverent Guide to Creativity
• Book Review – This is Going to Hurt
• Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy (The Three Body Problem)
• Think and Grow Rich

Reading (or pending book review)

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street
• Money, Master the Game
• Win Bigly
• Sleeping Beauties
• The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
• 6 Months to Live 10 Years Later
• The Biology of Belief
• How Not to Die
• The Richest Man in Babylon
• Stephen King on Writing
• The Boys from Brazil
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Hollow City, Library of Souls

To Read

• Effective Java – Joshua Bloch
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• Test Driven Development – Kent Beck
• The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
• Dependency Injection – Dhanji R. Prasanna
• Designing Interfaces
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software<
• Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives
• Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
• Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations
• Clean Code: A Handbook on Agile Software Craftsmanship
• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
• Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point
• Functional Thinking
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition
• Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
• Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
• User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
• Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process
• Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
• Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time
• The Art of Software Testing
• Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code
• Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
• The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
• The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us about America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny
• Figuring Out The Past: The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History
• War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires