Books¶
Books I've read, liked, and might recommend.
Software engineering¶
Strategy¶
- The mom test - Rob Fitzpatrick
- eXtreme Programming explained (2nd edition) - Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres
- Accelerate - Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
- Team Topologies - Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
Coding¶
- Growing object-oriented software, guided by tests - Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce
- Working effectively with legacy code - Michael Feathers
- Design Patterns: Elements of reusable object-oriented software - Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
Communication¶
- Crucial Conversations - Kerry Patternson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
- Nonviolent Communication (3rd edition) - Marshall Rosenberg
- Agile conversations - Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Frederick
- Bugs in writing: A Guide to Debugging your Prose - Lyn Dupre
- Economical writing - Deirdre Nansen McCloskly
Organisational¶
- Cognition in the wild - Edwin Hutchins
Humanities¶
History¶
- Black wave - Kim Ghattas
- From third world to first: The Singapore Story, 1965-2000 - Lee Kuan Yew
- Truth-Telling - Henry Reynolds
- India: A history - John Keay
- Map of a nation: A biography of the Ordnance Survey - Rachel Hewitt
- Longitude - Dava Sobel
Economics¶
- Introductory economics (5th edition) - George Frederick Stanlake
- The bottom billion - Paul Collier
Health¶
- Gut - Giulia Enders
- Understanding cancer - Robin Hesketh
- The body keeps the score - Bessel Van Der Kolk
- When the body says no - Gabor Maté
- Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing - Matthew Perry
Narrative non-fiction¶
- The Shetland bus - David Howarth
- The boys in the boat - Daniel James Brown
- Endurance - Alfred Lansing
- The emperor of all maladies: A biography of cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee
- This is going to hurt, Adam Kay
Fiction¶
- The curious incident of the dog in the night time - Mark Haddon
- The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams
- The 7 Harry Potter books - J. K. Rowling
- The daughter of time - Josephine Tey
- And then there were none - Agatha Christie
- The garbage king - Elizabeth Laird
Created on 2022-05-28
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