Updated 2023-12-22
Nonfiction
Architecture
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Soft City | David Sim |
Food
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Angry Chef | Anthony Warner |
Medicine
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| How to Treat People | Molly Case |
| If Our Bodies Could Talk | James Hamblin |
Science
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived | Adam Rutherford |
| Lab Girl | Hope Jahren |
History
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Buy Me the Sky | Xinran |
| Chernobyl Prayer | Svetlana Alexievich |
| Istanbul | Bettany Hughes |
| Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Secondhand Time | Svetlana Alexievich |
Politics
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Imagined Communities | Benedict Anderson |
| Manufacturing Consent | Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky |
| Notes on a Foreign Country | Suzy Hansen |
| Prisoners of Geography | Tim Marshall |
| Sweden’s Dark Soul | Kajsa Norman |
| The Coddling of the American Mind | Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff |
| The Death Of Expertise | Thomas M. Nichols |
| The Nordic Theory of Everything | Anu Partanen |
| The Power of Geography | Tim Marshall |
| The View From Flyover Country | Sarah Kendzior |
| City of Lies | Ramita Navai |
| Honeymoon in Tehran | Azadeh Moaveni |
| Our Women on the Ground | Zahra Hankir |
Linguistics
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Billion Voices | David Moser |
| Babel | Gaston Dorren |
| Because Internet | Gretchen McCulloch |
| Lingo | Gaston Dorren |
| Swearing Is Good for You | Emma Byrne |
| That’s Not What I Meant! | Deborah Tannen |
| The Prodigal Tongue | Lynne Murphy |
| The Stories of English | David Crystal |
Philosophy
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Ego is the Enemy | Ryan Holiday |
| The Art of Logic in an Illogical World | Eugenia Cheng |
| How Will You Measure Your Life? | Clayton M. Christensen |
Psychology
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| An Outsider’s Guide to Humans | Camilla Pang |
| Beyond Measure | Margaret Heffernan |
| Factfulness | Hans Rosling & Ola Rosling & Anna Rosling Rönnlund |
| Maybe You Should Talk to Someone | Lori Gottlieb |
| Rethinking Narcissism | Craig Malkin |
| The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) | Philippa Perry |
| The Great Mental Models | Shane Parrish |
| Toxic People | Tim Cantopher |
| When Strangers Meet | Kio Stark |
Business
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| ALIEN Thinking | Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Michael Wade |
| Platform Revolution | Geoffrey G. Parker & Marshall W. Van Alstyne & Sangeet Paul Choudary |
| The Culture Map | Erin Meyer |
| Trust Me, I’m Lying | Ryan Holiday |
| Impact Players | Liz Wiseman |
Leadership
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Build | Tony Fadell |
| HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself | Harvard Business Review |
| Humble Inquiry | Edgar H. Schein |
| Powerful | Patty McCord |
| The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Patrick Lencioni |
| The Hard Thing About Hard Things | Ben Horowitz |
| The Ideal Team Player | Patrick Lencioni |
| Too Proud To Lead | Ben Laker, David Cobb, Rita Trehan |
| What You Do is Who You Are | Ben Horowitz |
| Tribal Leadership | Dave Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright |
Technology
General
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Algorithms to Live By | Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths |
| Close to the Machine | Ellen Ullman |
| Life in Code | Ellen Ullman |
| The Mythical Man-Month | Frederick Brooks Jr. |
| The Business Value of Developer Relations | Mary Thengvall |
| The Missing Readme | Chris Riccomini |
| The Pragmatic Programmer | Andy Hunt |
| The Programmer’s Brain | Felienne Hermans |
| The Psychology of Computer Programming | Gerald M. Weinberg |
| The Software Architect Elevator | Gregor Hohpe |
DevOps / SRE
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Continuous Delivery Pipelines | Dave Farley |
| Docs for Developers | Jared Bhatti & Zachary Sarah Corleissen & Jen Lambourne & David Nunez & Heidi Waterhouse |
| Site Reliability Engineering | Betsy Beyer & Chris Jones & Jennifer Petoff & Niall Richard Murphy |
| The Phoenix Project | Gene Kim |
Data
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Data Science for Business | Foster Provost & Tom Fawcett |
| Data Teams | Jesse Anderson |
| Designing Data-Intensive Applications | Martin Kleppmann |
| Designing Machine Learning Systems | Chip Huyen |
| Fundamentals of Data Engineering | Joe Reis & Matt Housley |
| Hello World | Hannah Fry |
| Machine Learning Design Patterns | Valliappa Lakshmanan & Sara Robinson & Michael Munn |
| Machine Learning Engineering | Andriy Burkov |
| Practical DataOps | Harvinder Atwal |
| Something Doesn’t Add Up | Paul Goodwin |
| The Data Warehouse Toolkit | Ralph Kimball & Margy Ross |
| The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book | Andriy Burkov |
| Zillow Talk | Spencer Rascoff & Stan Humphries |
UX/UI
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Don’t Make Me Think | Steve Krug |
| The Best Interface Is No Interface | Golden Krishna |
| The Design of Everyday Things | Donald A. Norman |
| User Friendly | Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant |
Leadership
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| An Elegant Puzzle | Will Larson |
| Dynamic Reteaming | Heidi Helfand |
| Engineering Management for the Rest of Us | Sarah Drasner |
| Managing Humans | Michael Lopp |
| Peopleware | Tom Demarco & Tim Lister |
| Team Topologies | Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais |
| The Art of Leadership | Michael Lopp |
| The Manager’s Path | Camille Fournier |
Technical Leadership
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Staff Engineer | Will Larson |
| Talking With Tech Leads | Patrick Kua |
| The Staff Engineer’s Path | Tanya Reilly |
Fiction
Contemporary
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman |
| And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer | Fredrik Backman |
| The Love Hypothesis | Ali Hazelwood |
| The Red Notebook | Antoine Laurain |
| Sweet Bean Paste | Durian Sukegawa |
Classics
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Book of Rumi | Rumi |
Crime
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Millennium Trilogy | Stieg Larsson |
Fantasy
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Exit West | Mohsin Hamid |
| Joe Pitt | Charlie Huston |
| The Witcher | Andrzej Sapkowski |
Historical
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
| Cinnamon and Gunpowder | Eli Brown |
| Perfume | Patrick Süskind |
| The Bastard of Istanbul | Elif Shafak |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
Sci-Fi
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| All You Need Is Kill | Hiroshi Sakurazaka |
| Autonomous | Annalee Newitz |
| Iraq + 100 | Hassan Blasim |
| Lock In | John Scalzi |
| Repo Men | Eric Garcia |
| The Dispatcher | John Scalzi |
| The Murderbot Diaries | Martha Wells |
| Unauthorized Bread | Cory Doctorow |
Thriller
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Little Brother | Cory Doctorow |
| Darknet | Matthew Mather |
Wuxia
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Condor Trilogy | Jin Yong |
| The Smiling Proud Wanderer | Jin Yong |