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    Josh Haines
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In order of Most Useful to Least Useful. At the bottom, I've included a list in alphabetical order of a couple honorable mentions on unrelated topics that I think are outstanding.

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  1. A Seat at the Table (Mark Schwartz)
  2. Ask Your Developer (Jeff Lawson)
  3. The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy (Mark Schwartz)
  4. The Fearless Organization (Amy Edmondson)
  5. Multipliers (Liz Wiseman)
  6. Dare to Lead (Brené Brown)
  7. The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford)
  8. Working Backwards (Colin Bryar, Bill Carr)
  9. The Unicorn Project (Gene Kim)
  10. Sooner Safer Happier (Jonathan Smart)
  11. Project to Product (Mik Kersten)
  12. No Rules Rules (Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer)
  13. The Art of Business Value (Mark Schwartz)
  14. Deep Work (Cal Newport)
  15. Hyperfocus (Chris Bailey)
  16. Nonviolent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg)
  17. Right Kind of Wrong (Amy Edmondson)
  18. Fear of Missing Out (Patrick McGinnis)
  19. Wiring the Winning Organization (Gene Kim, Steven Spear)
  20. Build (Tony Fadell)
  21. Strong Ground (Brené Brown)
  22. Building a StoryBrand (Dennis Miller)
  23. Radical Candor (Kim Scott)
  24. Essentialism (Greg McKeown)
  25. Turn the Ship Around (L. David Marquet)
  26. Quit (Annie Duke)
  27. Measure What Matters (John Doerr)
  28. The Culture Code (Daniel Coyle)
  29. Escaping the Build Trap (Melissa Perri)
  30. War and Peace and IT (Mark Schwartz)
  31. Team Topologies (Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais)
  32. The DevOps Handbook (Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick DeBois, John Willis)
  33. So Good They Can't Ignore You (Cal Newport)
  34. Made to Stick (Chip & Dan Heath)
  35. The Value Flywheel Effect (David Anderson)
  36. Making Work Visible (Dominica DeGrandis)
  37. Accelerate (Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim)
  38. XLR8 (John Kotter)
  39. Traction (Gino Wickman)
  40. Linchpin (Seth Godin)
  41. Upstream (Dan Heath)
  42. Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
  43. A World Without Email (Cal Newport)
  44. Daring Greatly (Brené Brown)
  45. Indistractable (Nir Eyal)
  46. Reset (Dan Heath)
  47. High Growth Handbook (Elad Gil)
  48. First, Break All the Rules (Don Clifton, Gallup)
  49. The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Ben Horowitz)
  50. Supercommunicators (Charles Duhigg)
  51. Software Architect Elevator (Gregor Hohpe)
  52. The Icarus Deception (Seth Godin)
  53. Change (John Kotter)
  54. Switch (Chip & Dan Heath)
  55. Range (David Epstein)
  56. Nudge (Cass Sunstein, Richard Thaler)
  57. Clean Code (Robert C. Martin)
  58. Clean Architecture (Robert C. Martin)
  59. Clean Coder (Robert C. Martin)
  60. Sharks in the Moat (Phil Martin)
  61. Decision Quality (Carl Spetzler, Hannah Winter, Jennifer Meyer)
  62. Tribes (Carl Spetzler, Hannah Winter, Jennifer Meyer)
  63. Zero to One (Peter Thiel)
  64. Think Again (Adam Grant)
  65. Only the Paranoid Survive (Andrew Grove)
  66. Make Space to Lead (Tutti Taygerly)
  67. Understanding Software (Max Kanat-Alexander)
  68. Talking to Strangers (Malcolm Gladwell)
  69. The Fiefdom Syndrome (Robert Herbold)
  70. DevOps for the Modern Enterprise (Mirco Hering)
  71. The Servant (James Hunter)
  72. The Dip (Seth Godin)
  73. Mindset (Carol Dweck)
  74. How to Have Impossible Conversations (Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay)
  75. Finite and Infinite Games (James Carse)
  76. Container Security (Liz Rice, O'Reilly)
  77. The Lean Startup (Eric Reis)
  78. The Startup Way (Eric Reis)
  79. The Innovator's Dilemma (Clayton Christensen)
  80. Your Next Five Moves (Patrick Bet-David)
  81. The Digital Mindset (Paul Leonardi, Tsedal Neeley)

Honorable Mentions