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Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)

The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

The Lean Startup

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

1984

2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know: Tackle computer science challenges with classic to modern algorithms in machine learning, software design, data systems, and cryptography

A Brief History of Time

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
- A Dance with Dragons 2: After the Feast (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5, Part 2 of 2)
A Dance with Dragons 2: After the Feast (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5, Part 2 of 2)
- A Dream of Spring (A Song of Ice and Fire, #7)
A Dream of Spring (A Song of Ice and Fire, #7)

A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
- A Joosr Guide to... The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
A Joosr Guide to... The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

A Philosophy of Software Design

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Abroad in Japan: Ten Years in the Land of the Rising Sun

Agile Estimating and Planning (Robert C. Martin Series)
- Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania (Mistborn, #4.5)
Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania (Mistborn, #4.5)

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

At the Existentialist Café

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

Babel

Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)

Beyond Good and Evil

Brave New World

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Building Event-Driven Microservices: Leveraging Organizational Data at Scale

Building Evolutionary Architectures: Automated Software Governance

Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

Business Model Generation

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

Clean Architecture

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

Conversations on Love

Cosmos

Cosmos: Possible Worlds

Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

Domain-Driven Design Distilled

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
- Drive by Daniel Pink - In-Depth Summary by edify.me
Drive by Daniel Pink - In-Depth Summary by edify.me

Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive, #2.5)

Effective Java
- Effective Rust: 35 Specific Ways to Improve Your Rust Code
Effective Rust: 35 Specific Ways to Improve Your Rust Code

Elements of Distributed Computing (Wiley - IEEE)

Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

Essential Kanban Condensed

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Ethics

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre

Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction

Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck))
- Hands-on Rust: Effective Learning through 2D Game Development and Play
Hands-on Rust: Effective Learning through 2D Game Development and Play

Happy Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths about Fulfillment, Love, and Success

Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

How to Think More About Sex

How to Win Friends & Influence People

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

How Will You Measure Your Life?: A thought-provoking approach to measuring life's success

I Who Have Never Known Men

Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects

Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck))

Industrial Society and Its Future

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Integrated Solid Waste Management: Engineering Principles and Management Issues

Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation

Introduction to the Theory of Computation

Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

Kallocain

Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business

Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale

Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy

Liefdesbang: Overwin verlatingsangst en bindingsangst

Limitarisme

Man's Search for Meaning

Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools & Practices to Motivate Any Team

Meditations

Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster

Mortality
- Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare's Mathematical Life and Times
Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare's Mathematical Life and Times

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)
- On the Hunt for Great Companies: An Investor's Guide to Evaluating Business Quality and Durability
On the Hunt for Great Companies: An Investor's Guide to Evaluating Business Quality and Durability
- Onbehagen
Onbehagen
- Onbeschikbaarheid
Onbeschikbaarheid

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
- OUTSMARTING REALITY
OUTSMARTING REALITY

Patterns of Distributed Systems (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Piranesi

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

Principles: Life and Work
- Quality First Investing : A checklist approach to finding and sitting tight in multibaggers
Quality First Investing : A checklist approach to finding and sitting tight in multibaggers

Raising Children Compassionately: Parenting the Nonviolent Communication Way (Nonviolent Communication Guides)

Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)

Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again

Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
- Remote Team Interactions Workbook: Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working
Remote Team Interactions Workbook: Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working

Requirements Analysis and System Design: AND Extreme Programming Explained - Embrace Change: Developing Information Systems with UML

Rework

Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

Rust Atomics and Locks: Low-Level Concurrency in Practice

Rust for Rustaceans

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Secret History (Mistborn, #3.5)

Shadows of Self (Mistborn, #5)

Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures

Software Craftsman, The: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride (Robert C. Martin Series)

Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

Sophie’s World

Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Summary & Study Guide of Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows: A Primer
Summary & Study Guide of Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows: A Primer
- Summary: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie | Key Ideas in 1 Hour or Less (up-to-date real-world examples included)
Summary: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie | Key Ideas in 1 Hour or Less (up-to-date real-world examples included)

System Design Interview – An insider's guide

System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2

Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

Test-Driven Development: By Example

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

The 4-Hour Workweek

The 48 Laws of Power

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

The Alchemist

The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set

The Art of Happiness

The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
- The Art of Living an Absurd Existence: Paradoxes and Thought Experiments That Change the Way You Think
The Art of Living an Absurd Existence: Paradoxes and Thought Experiments That Change the Way You Think

The Art of War
- The Art of Writing Efficient Programs: An advanced programmer's guide to efficient hardware utilization and compiler optimizations using C++ examples
The Art of Writing Efficient Programs: An advanced programmer's guide to efficient hardware utilization and compiler optimizations using C++ examples

The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn, #6)

The Book of Disquiet

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow

The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

The E-myth Revisited

The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

The Elements Of Computing Systems: Building A Modern Computer From First Principles
- The Eleventh Metal (Mistborn, #0.5)
The Eleventh Metal (Mistborn, #0.5)

The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

The Gifts of Imperfection

The Goal: 40th Anniversary Edition: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

The Grand Design

The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

The Intelligent Investor

The Lean Startup

The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7)

The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

The Nature of Code

The Nicomachean Ethics

The Odyssey

The Order of Time

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
- The Political Economy of Human Behaviour and Economic Development: Psychology and Economic Development
The Political Economy of Human Behaviour and Economic Development: Psychology and Economic Development

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

The Republic

The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups

The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

The Stranger

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

The Universe in a Nutshell

The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)

The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)

The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- The Winds of Winter (A Song of Ice and Fire, #6)
The Winds of Winter (A Song of Ice and Fire, #6)
- The World is a Cosmic Joke - It's So Simple, You Will Laugh
The World is a Cosmic Joke - It's So Simple, You Will Laugh

The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones
- Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Think and Grow Rich

Thinking In Systems: A Primer

Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (30 Minute Expert Summary)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (30 Minute Expert Summary)

Three Roads To Quantum Gravity

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design

To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society

What We Owe the Future

What We Owe to Each Other

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Zero To Production In Rust