The books that changed how I think.
Books I have actually finished, start to end, and would read again. My antilibrary holds the other half: what I own and have not read.
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Napoleon: A Life
Andrew Roberts
More books I have read
No covers on hand for these yet, just the list.
Software & engineering
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship — Robert C. Martin
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software — Eric Evans
- Enterprise Integration Patterns — Gregor Hohpe & Bobby Woolf
- Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems — Sam Newman
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann
- Laravel: Up & Running — Matt Stauffer
- Java Concurrency in Practice — Brian Goetz et al.
- AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models — Chip Huyen
- The Effective Engineer — Edmond Lau
- The Pragmatic Programmer — David Thomas & Andrew Hunt
Business, marketing & sales
- Blue Ocean Strategy — W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
- Building a StoryBrand 2.0 — Donald Miller
- Zero to One — Peter Thiel
- Fanatical Prospecting — Jeb Blount
- The Innovator's Dilemma — Clayton M. Christensen
- No B.S. Direct Marketing — Dan S. Kennedy
- The Ultimate Sales Machine — Chet Holmes
- The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
- CaShvertising — Drew Eric Whitman
- The Ultimate Sales Letter, 4th Edition — Dan S. Kennedy
- No B.S. Marketing to the Affluent — Dan S. Kennedy
- $100M Leads — Alex Hormozi
- $100M Offers — Alex Hormozi
Other
- 1984 — George Orwell
- Atomic Habits — James Clear
- Cesare: Una biografia — Adrian Goldsworthy (2014)