Books¶

List¶

(not including those who were already read in the past)

Ben Hur: a tale of the Christ - Lewis Wallace (1960 print, Harper Crest Edition)
- Magnificent, marvelous. An incredible tale, slightly differs from the original movie in 1959.

The Pragmatic Programmer 1999
Building Microservices (O'Reilly) - Sam Newman
Head First Design Patterns (O'Reilly) - Eric Freeman & Elisabeth Robson
Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns (Manning) - Mark Seemann & Steven van Deursen
Online: https://livebook.manning.com/book/dependency-injection-principles-practices-patterns/
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (2013)
Code Complete
Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering (1995), Frederick Brooks Jr.
High Performance MySQL, 4th Edition
(not so great) A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout (https://milkov.tech/assets/psd.pdf)
Category Theory for Programmers - Bartosz Milewski
Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design - Robert Martin
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software 1994 - Erich Gamma, Richard Helm... (This is the infamous Gang of Four, must read!)
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1984 and 1996), by MIT - Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
Software Engineering, A modern Approach - Marco Tulio Valente
- Not a well-known author or a book but looks decent. Contains all the crucial aspects of software engineering

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (1992, originally published in 1716)
Il Principe - Niccolo Machiavelli (Great book about influencing and controlling people. Must read)
Art of Thinking Clearly 2013 - Rolf Dobelli
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Chaucer's Prologue Knight's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer (1920s edition)
The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
Our mutual friend - Charles Dickens
Only the Paranoid Survive, Andrew Grove
The Papalagi (Der Papalagi)
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Scourge of God - William Dietrich