
Propaganda
Edward Bernays and Mark Crispin Miller
4.7 on Amazon
6 HN comments

Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
Gayle Laakmann McDowell
4.7 on Amazon
6 HN comments

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Nadia Eghbal
4.6 on Amazon
6 HN comments

The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Camille Fournier
4.6 on Amazon
6 HN comments

Open: An Autobiography
Andre Agassi, Erik Davies, et al.
4.7 on Amazon
6 HN comments

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher , William L. Ury, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
6 HN comments

Lonesome Dove: A Novel
Larry McMurtry
4.8 on Amazon
6 HN comments

The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness
John Yates , Matthew Immergut , et al.
4.7 on Amazon
5 HN comments

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Tufte and Edward R.
4.6 on Amazon
5 HN comments

The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
4.5 on Amazon
5 HN comments

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell and Hachette Audio
4.5 on Amazon
5 HN comments

Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, Wil Wheaton, et al.
4.7 on Amazon
5 HN comments

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
4.3 on Amazon
5 HN comments

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M. Christensen, L.J. Ganser, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
5 HN comments

Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
BJ Fogg Ph.D
4.7 on Amazon
5 HN comments
otrasonJuly 26, 2021
eatonphilonJune 20, 2021
I do agree The Manager's Path is a good one though.
Some other favorites are High Output Management by Andy Grove, Managing Transitions by William Bridges, The Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, Peopleware by Tom DeMarco, The Innovator's Dilemma, etc.
ykat7onJuly 8, 2021
1. The Making of a Manager (https://www.amazon.com/Making-Manager-What-Everyone-Looks-eb...)
2. The Manager's Path (https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Grow...)
3. Crucial Conversations (https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Talking-Stakes-...)
4. The Coaching Habit (https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Habit-Less-Change-Forever-eb...)
5. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Len...)
I'm still due to read High Output Management (https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove-e...) and Extreme Ownership (https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs-eboo...).
chris_jonJuly 26, 2021
Apprenticeship Patterns by Adewale Oshineye and Dave Hoover: A set of "design patterns" for your career as a software engineer. I read this relatively late on, when my career was in a bit of a rut, and I credit it for giving me the motivation and the tools to get out of that rut. I wish I'd found it earlier.
Other brilliant non-technical books: The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Mastering Communication At Work by Jon Wortmann and Ethan Becker, Mindset by Carol Dweck, Drive by Daniel Pink, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg.
Some brilliant books focussing a bit more on tech and code craft: Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided by Tests ("The GOOS Book") by Nat Pryce and Steve Freeman, Refactoring by Martin Fowler, Clean Code and Clean Architecture by Bob Martin.
riccominionAug 10, 2021
amirkdvonJune 19, 2021
- The Manager's Path, by Camille Fournier
- An Elegant Puzzle, by Will Larson
- Team Topologies, by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
- Thinking in Systems, by Donella Meadows
- Also see: references cited in the above and other works by same authors
Disclaimer: Not a seasoned EM and definitely not the first to recommend these on HN.