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Code cover

1. Code

by Charles Petzold
Read 59 comments
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams cover

2. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

by Matthew Walker
Read 36 comments
Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

3. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman
Read 43 comments
Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

4. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate
Read 62 comments
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

5. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini
Read 39 comments
Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition cover

6. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
Read 48 comments
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

7. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann
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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

8. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams cover

9. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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Steve Jobs cover

10. Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson
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The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

11. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
Read 30 comments
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

12. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

13. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Don Norman
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C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

14. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Read 36 comments
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

15. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour A. Papert
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

16. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication cover

17. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication

by William Zinsser
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Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

18. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev
Read 21 comments
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

19. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World cover

20. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport
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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

21. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B. Irvine
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer cover

22. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Read 10 comments
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

23. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Read 16 comments
Code Complete cover

24. Code Complete

by Steve McConnell
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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

25. Programming Collective Intelligence

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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

26. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

27. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik
Read 21 comments
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives cover

28. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

by Jesse Eisinger
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It―A Guide to Starting a Business in a Productive and Successful Way cover

29. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It―A Guide to Starting a Business in a Productive and Successful Way

by Michael E. Gerber
Read 21 comments
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series) cover

30. Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Michael C. Feathers
Read 33 comments
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love cover

31. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles cover

32. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

by Steven Pressfield
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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

33. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

34. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu
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Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller cover

35. Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

by Donella Meadows
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

36. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A Philosophy of Software Design cover

37. A Philosophy of Software Design

by John Ousterhout
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Beautiful Code cover

38. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
Read 19 comments
Programming Rust cover

39. Programming Rust

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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

40. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner
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High Output Management cover

41. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove
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JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts cover

42. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier
Read 27 comments
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

43. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

44. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup
Read 21 comments
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides) cover

45. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)

by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Read 17 comments
The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain cover

46. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

by John E. Sarno
Read 12 comments
JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

47. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford
Read 34 comments
On Intelligence cover

48. On Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It cover

49. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

by Gary Taubes
Read 19 comments
The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition cover

50. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by Thomas E. Pearsall
Read 10 comments
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist cover

51. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success cover

52. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck
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Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

53. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary
Read 15 comments
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win cover

54. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
Read 14 comments
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business cover

55. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

by Clayton M. Christensen
Read 18 comments
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

56. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker
Read 22 comments
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) cover

57. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
Read 16 comments
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) cover

58. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

by Steve Krug
Read 9 comments
The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

59. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
Read 10 comments
Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists cover

60. Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists

by Edward Scheinerman
Read 11 comments
Finite and Infinite Games cover

61. Finite and Infinite Games

by James Carse
Read 11 comments
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

62. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff
Read 18 comments
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage cover

63. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

by Cliff Stoll
Read 19 comments
21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

64. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition

by Ben Klemens
Read 17 comments
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

65. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock
Read 25 comments
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It cover

66. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
Read 7 comments
Gödel's Proof cover

67. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman
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How to Lie with Statistics cover

68. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff
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Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice cover

69. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice

by John F. Hughes
Read 8 comments
How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

70. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie
Read 30 comments
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

71. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser
Read 18 comments
The Algorithm Design Manual cover

72. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena
Read 20 comments
The Soul of A New Machine cover

73. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder
Read 15 comments
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing cover

74. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton G Malkiel
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Lisp in Small Pieces cover

75. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet cover

76. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon
Read 17 comments
The Art of Electronics cover

77. The Art of Electronics

by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill
Read 9 comments
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) cover

78. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton
Read 15 comments
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) cover

79. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

by George Polya
Read 16 comments
The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) cover

80. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

by Leland Wilkinson
Read 10 comments
Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

81. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
Read 9 comments
Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition cover

82. Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition

by Shelley Powers
Read 12 comments
Programming Rust, 2nd Edition cover

83. Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

Read 15 comments
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

84. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Krste Asanović
Read 16 comments
Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

85. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott
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The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change cover

86. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

Read 24 comments
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading cover

87. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
Read 8 comments
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you cover

88. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

by Rob Fitzpatrick
Read 16 comments
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

89. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson
Read 21 comments
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition cover

90. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

by Betty Edwards
Read 10 comments
The Design of Everyday Things cover

91. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman
Read 17 comments
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto) cover

92. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Read 10 comments
The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

93. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen
Read 17 comments
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

94. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho
Read 17 comments
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

95. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande
Read 10 comments
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory cover

96. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

by David Graeber
Read 15 comments
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator cover

97. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

by Ryan Holiday
Read 12 comments
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics) cover

98. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)

by John Drury Clark
Read 14 comments
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains cover

99. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr
Read 15 comments
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion cover

100. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt
Read 15 comments