Books I've Read - Software

There are 89 books listed below. Out of those 89, I have chosen the five that have had the most influence on my career, and that I consider the best of them all. These are in no particular order.

My Top 5

1. Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# [Martin]
2. Head First Design Patterns [Freeman, et al.]
3. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams [DeMarco, Lister]
4. Joel on Software [Spolsky]
5. The Mythical Man-Month [Brooks]


C#/.NET

1. Programming C# 5.0 [Griffiths]
2. C# in Depth [Skeet]
3. Programming .NET Components [Lowy]
4. Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries [Cwalina, Abrams]
5. Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# [Wagner]
6. C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition [Hilyard, Teilhet]
7. Introducing .NET 4.0: With Visual Studio 2010 [Mackey]
8. CLR via C#, Third Edition [Richter]
9. Expert C# 2008 Business Objects [Lhotka]
10. Programming .NET 3.5 [Liberty, Horovitz]
11. Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): For .NET Framework 3.5 [Resnick, et al.]
12. MSDN (magazine) - many

Design/Practices

1. The Mythical Man-Month [Brooks]
2. Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# [Martin]
3. Design Patterns [Gamma, et al.]
4. Head First Design Patterns [Freeman, et al.]
5. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship [Martin]
6. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master [Hunt]
7. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code [Fowler, et al.]
8. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction [McConnell]
9. Applying UML and Patterns [Larman]
10. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach [Pressman]
11. UML Distilled [Fowler]
12. Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit [Hunt, Thomas]
13. Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World [Subramaniam]
14. Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design [McLaughlin, et al.]
15. Data Modeling Essentials, Third Edition [Simsion, Witt]
16. The Object-Oriented Thought Process [Weisfeld]

Architecture

1. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture [Fowler]
2. Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions [Hohpe, Woolf]
3. Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services [Daigneau]
4. Microsoft® Application Architecture Guide
5. Microsoft® .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise [Esposito]
6. The Process of Software Architecting [Eeles, Cripps]
7. REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture [Webber, et al.]

Web

1. JavaScript and jQuery [McFarland]
2. Programming ASP.NET MVC 4 [Chadwick, et al.]
3. HTML5 and CSS3 [Castro]
4. HTML5: The Missing Manual [MacDonald]
5. Silverlight 4 in Action [Brown]
6. Head First Ajax [Riordan]
7. Programming ASP.NET [Liberty, Hurwitz]

Leadership/Project Management

1. Agile Project Management with Scrum [Schwaber]
2. Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum [Cohn]
3. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable [Lencioni]
4. Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience [Ginnett, et al.]
5. The Leadership Challenge [Kouzes, Posner]
6. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition [PMI]
7. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling [Kerzner]
8. The Power of IT: Survival Guide for the CIO [De Sutter]
9. Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects [Richardson, Gwaltney]
10. Creating a Software Engineering Culture [Wiegers]
11. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams [DeMarco, Lister]
12. The Project Manager's MBA: How to Translate Project Decisions into Business Success [Cohen, Graham]
13. Adventures of an IT Leader [Austin, et al.]
14. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful [Goldsmith, Reiter]
15. Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management [Rothman]
16. CIO Survival Guide: The Roles and Responsibilities of the Chief Information Officer [Schubert]
17. The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels [Watkins]
18. Harvard Business Review (magazine) - many
19. Introduction to Information Systems Project Management [Olson]
20. Earned Value Project Management [Fleming]
21. Applied Software Project Management [Stellman, Greene]
22. Introduction to Project Management [Schwalbe]

Other/Advice/Culture

1. Big Ball of Mud [Foote, Yoder]
2. Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript [Sells, Satrom]
3. Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML [Likness]
4. C Programming Language [Kernighan, Ritchie]
5. WPF 4 Unleashed [Nathan]
6. Programming Entity Framework: Code First [Lerman, Miller]
7. Joel on Software [Spolsky]
8. More Joel on Software [Spolsky]
9. The Best Software Writing I [Spolsky]
10. Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition [Scott]
11. Data Communications and Computer Networks: A Business User's Approach [White]
12. Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES): Optimal Design, Planning, and Deployment [Meyer, et al.]
13. Workflow Modeling [Sharp]
14. The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit [Kimball]
15. Computer Networks, Third Edition: A Systems Approach [Peterson, Davie]
16. Statistics for Business and Economics, 6th Edition [Anderson, et al.]
17. Information Nation: Seven Keys to Information Management Compliance [Kahn, Blair]
18. Who: The A Method for Hiring [Smart, Street]
19. The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL [Henderson, Celko]
20. Computing Concepts with Java 2 Essentials [Horstmann]

Linux

1. Understanding UNIX/LINUX Programming: A Guide to Theory and Practice [Molay]
2. Linux in a Nutshell [Siever, et al.]
3. Knoppix Hacks [Rankin]
4. Linux Server Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools [Flickenger]
5. Red Hat RPM Guide [Foster-Johnson]