Book Shelf
In order of most useful to least useful. Switch the sort below to browse by title, author, or review date instead -- the # next to each book always shows where it sits in my own ranking.
- 1
Oct 2022A Seat at the Table
Mark Schwartz
IT Leadership in the Age of Agility.
- 2
Oct 2022Ask Your Developer
Jeff Lawson
How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century.
- 3
Oct 2022The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy
Mark Schwartz
Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler.
- 4
Oct 2022The Fearless Organization
Amy C. Edmondson
Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth.
- 5
Aug 2023Multipliers
Liz Wiseman
How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter.
- 6
Jul 2026Dare to Lead
Brené Brown
Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
- 7
Sep 2020The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win.
- 8
May 2023Working Backwards
Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon.
- 9
Mar 2021The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim
A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data.
- 10
Aug 2022Sooner Safer Happier
Jonathan Smart
Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility.
- 11
Aug 2022Project to Product
Mik Kersten
How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework.
- 12
Jul 2024No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention.
- 13
Mar 2023The Art of Business Value
Mark Schwartz
This book explores what business value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software development and delivery practices.
- 14
Oct 2022Deep Work
Cal Newport
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World.
- 15
Oct 2022Hyperfocus
Chris Bailey
How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction.
- 16
Apr 2024Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg
A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships.
- 17
Nov 2024Right Kind of Wrong
Amy C. Edmondson
The Science of Failing Well.
- 18
Sep 2023Fear of Missing Out
Patrick J. McGinnis
Practical Decision-Making in a World of Overwhelming Choice.
- 19
Apr 2024Wiring the Winning Organization
Gene Kim, Steven Spear
Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification.
- 20
Apr 2023Build
Tony Fadell
An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making.
- 21
Jul 2026Strong Ground
Brené Brown
The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit.
- 22
Jun 2024Building a Storybrand
Donald Miller
Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen.
- 23
May 2020Radical Candor
Kim Scott
Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.
- 24
Aug 2023Essentialism
Greg McKeown
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.
- 25
Aug 2024Turn the Ship Around
L. David Marquet
A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders.
- 26
Apr 2024Quit
Annie Duke
The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away.
- 27
Oct 2022Measure What Matters
John Doerr
How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs.
- 28
Aug 2023The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle
The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups.
- 29
Aug 2024Escaping the Build Trap
Melissa Perri
How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value.
- 30
Jul 2022War and Peace and IT
Mark Schwartz
Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age.
- 31
Oct 2022Team Topologies
Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow.
- 32
Sep 2022The DevOps Handbook
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis
How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations.
- 33
Jun 2025So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love.
- 34
Mar 2024Made to Stick
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.
- 35
Aug 2023The Value Flywheel Effect
David Anderson
Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud.
- 36
Sep 2023Making Work Visible
Dominica DeGrandis
Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow.
- 37
Oct 2022Accelerate
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations.
- 38
Aug 2023XLR8
John P. Kotter
Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World.
- 39
Jul 2026Traction
Gino Wickman
Get a Grip on Your Business.
- 40
Oct 2022Linchpin
Seth Godin
Are You Indispensable?
- 41
Aug 2023Upstream
Dan Heath
The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen.
- 42
Jan 2024Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.
- 43
Aug 2024A World Without Email
Cal Newport
Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload.
- 44
Jul 2026Daring Greatly
Brené Brown
How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead.
- 45
Nov 2022Indistractable
Nir Eyal
How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.
- 46
Mar 2026Reset
Dan Heath
How to Change What's Not Working.
- 47
Apr 2026High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
The playbook for growing your startup into a global brand.
- 48
Sep 2024First, Break All the Rules
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman
What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently.
- 49
Mar 2026The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship.
- 50
Jun 2024Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg
How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection.
- 51
Aug 2023Software Architect Elevator
Gregor Hohpe
Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise.
- 52
Nov 2023The Icarus Deception
Seth Godin
How High Will You Fly?
- 53
Sep 2023Change
John P. Kotter
How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times.
- 54
Jun 2024Switch
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
How to Change Things When Change Is Hard.
- 55
Mar 2024Range
David Epstein
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.
- 56
May 2024Nudge
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Small nudges, big changes: Improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness.
- 57
Aug 2022Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.
- 58
Aug 2023Clean Architecture
Robert C. Martin
A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design.
- 59
Aug 2023The Clean Coder
Robert C. Martin
A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers.
- 60
Aug 2023Sharks in the Moat
Phil Martin
How to Create Truly Secure Software.
- 61
Aug 2023Decision Quality
Carl Spetzler, Hannah Winter, Jennifer Meyer
Value Creation from Better Business Decisions.
- 62
Sep 2023Tribes
Seth Godin
We Need You to Lead Us.
- 63
Jul 2024Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.
- 64
Aug 2023Think Again
Adam Grant
The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know.
- 65
Dec 2023Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew S. Grove
How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company.
- 66
Dec 2023Make Space to Lead
Tutti Taygerly
Break Patterns to Find Flow and Focus on What Matters.
- 67
Apr 2023Understanding Software
Max Kanat-Alexander
Max Kanat-Alexander on simplicity, coding, and how to suck less as a programmer.
- 68
Jul 2023Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know.
- 69
Sep 2023The Fiefdom Syndrome
Robert Herbold
The Turf Battles That Undermine Careers and Companies - And How to Overcome Them.
- 70
Apr 2023DevOps for the Modern Enterprise
Mirco Hering
Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations.
- 71
Apr 2023The Servant
James C. Hunter
A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership.
- 72
Aug 2023The Dip
Seth Godin
A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick).
- 73
Jun 2023Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
The New Psychology of Success.
- 74
Apr 2023How to Have Impossible Conversations
Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay
A Very Practical Guide.
- 75
Sep 2023Finite and Infinite Games
James P. Carse
A Vision of Life As Play and Possibility.
- 76
Jun 2023Container Security
Liz Rice
Fundamental Technology Concepts that Protect Containerized Applications.
- 77
Oct 2022The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.
- 78
Oct 2022The Startup Way
Eric Ries
How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth.
- 79
Sep 2022The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen
When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change).
- 80
Apr 2024Your Next Five Moves
Patrick Bet-David
Master the Art of Business Strategy.
- 81
Aug 2023The Digital Mindset
Paul Leonardi, Tsedal Neeley
What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI.
Honorable Mentions
Outside the main ranking -- outstanding books on unrelated topics, listed alphabetically.
