Reads

📚 A list of physical books I own. Includes ratings!

If you have book recommendations for me, please create a Pull Request adding a link at the end of inbox.markdown.

Books I would like to read but I haven't purchased yet can be found on my Amazon wishlist.

Ratings

• 🌑 Haven't read yet _(28/84)
• 🌘 🌗 🌖 Reading progress _(4/84)
• 🌕 Finished reading, liked it _(27/84)
• 🌝 Wouldn't recommend _(2/84)
• 🌟 Loved it _(23/84)

Web Performance

• 🌑 Designing for Performance _{Weighing Aesthetics and Speed}
• 🌑 Even Faster Web Sites _{Performance Best Practices for Web Developers}
• 🌟 High Performance Browser Networking _{What every web developer should know about networking and web performance}
• 🌑 High Performance JavaScript _{Build Faster Web Application Interfaces}
• 🌑 High Performance Web Sites _{Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers}

User Experience/Interaction Design/Usability

• 🌟 About Face _{The Essentials of Interaction Design (3rd edition)}
• 🌕 Defensive Design for the Web _{How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points}
• 🌟 Don't Make Me Think _{A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability}
• 🌝 Lean UX _{Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience}
• 🌟 The Design of Everyday Things
• 🌟 The Inmates Are Running the Asylum _{Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity}

Web Design

• 🌑 Adaptive Web Design _{Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement}
• 🌕 CSS Secrets _{Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems}

Art/Design

• 🌕 How Buildings Learn _{What Happens After They're Built}
• 🌟 The Accidental Masterpiece _{On the Art of Life and Vice Versa}
• 🌑 What Are You Looking At? _{The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art}

Languages

• 🌑 Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
• 🌑 Beginning Ruby _{From Novice to Professional}
• 🌑 Eloquent JavaScript _{A Modern Introduction to Programming}
• 🌕 JavaScript: The Good Parts
• 🌑 Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! _{A Beginner's Guide}
• 🌑 Learning Python
• 🌑 Programming Elixir _{Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun}
• 🌑 The Art of UNIX Programming

Compilers

• 🌑 CLR via C#
• 🌘 Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
• 🌕 Mastering Regular Expressions

Development Philosophy

• 🌝 Becoming a Technical Leader _{An Organic Problem-Solving Approach}
• 🌑 Clean Code _{A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship}
• 🌑 Domain-Driven Design _{Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software}
• 🌕 Getting Real _{The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application}
• 🌕 Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• 🌕 The Clean Coder _{A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers}
• 🌟 The Pragmatic Programmer _{From Journeyman to Master}

Algorithms

• 🌗 Code Complete _{A Practical Handbook of Software Construction}
• 🌕 Hacker's Delight
• 🌕 Head First Design Patterns
• 🌟 Programming Pearls

AI

• 🌟 Programming Collective Intelligence _{Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications}

Databases/Search

• 🌟 Elasticsearch _{The Definitive Guide}
• 🌕 NoSQL Distilled _{A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence}
• 🌕 Understanding MySQL Internals

Product Design

• 🌕 Hooked _{How to Build Habit-Forming Products}
• 🌟 Inspired _{How To Create Products Customers Love}

Marketing/Sales/Negotiation

• 🌕 Crossing the Chasm _{Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers}
• 🌟 How to Win Friends & Influence People
• 🌕 The Win Without Pitching Manifesto

Economics

• 🌘 Capital _{in the Twenty First Century}

On Thinking

• 🌑 Antifragile _{Things That Gain from Disorder}
• 🌗 Gödel, Escher, Bach _{An Eternal Golden Braid}
• 🌟 Thinking, Fast and Slow

On Writing

• 🌑 Nicely Said _{Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose}
• 🌑 On Writing Well _{The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction}
• 🌟 The Sense of Style _{The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century}

Way of Life

• 🌕 Search Inside Yourself _{The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)}
• 🌕 Tao Te Ching
• 🌕 The Art of Learning _{An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance}

Startups/Businesses

• 🌟 Business Adventures _{Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street}
• 🌕 Rework
• 🌕 Start-up Nation _{The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle}
• 🌟 The Innovator’s Dilemma _{When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail}
• 🌟 The Lean Startup _{How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses}
• 🌕 The New Kingmakers _{How Developers Conquered the World}
• 🌕 The Year Without Pants _{WordPress.com and the Future of Work}
• 🌟 Zero to One _{Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future}

Teamwork

• 🌕 Peopleware _{Productive Projects and Teams}
• 🌑 Rapid Development _{Taming Wild Software Schedules}
• 🌟 The Mythical Man-Month _{Essays on Software Engineering}

Management

• 🌟 The Phoenix Project _{A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win}

Personalities/Life Stories

• 🌟 A Brief History of Time
• 🌟 Countdown to Zero Day _{Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon}
• 🌕 Elon Musk _{Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future}
• 🌕 Empires of Light _{Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World}
• 🌑 Ghost in the Wires _{My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker}
• 🌑 Masters of Doom _{How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture}
• 🌕 Nikola Tesla: My Inventions
• 🌑 Outliers _{The Story of Success}
• 🌟 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! _{Adventures of a Curious Character}
• 🌑 The Cathedral & the Bazaar _{Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary}
• 🌑 Weaving the Web _{The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web}

Comics/Casual Reads

• 🌕 xkcd: volume 0
• 🌑 Thing Explainer _{Complicated Stuff in Simple Words}

Novels

• 🌑 A Confederacy of Dunces
• 🌑 Animal Farm and 1984