Books

Programming Practice

• A Philosophy of Software Design
• Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
• Clean Code
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Joel on Software
• More Joel on Software
• Object Thinking
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• The Best of Software Writing Volume I
• The Object Oriented Thought Process
• The Pragmatic Programmer

Hacker Culture

• Free as in Freedom
• Hackers and Painters
• In the Beginning… was the Command Line
• Just for Fun
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• iWoz

Teams, Projects, and Management

• Peopleware
• Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky’s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent
• The Mythical Man Month
• The Myths of Innovation

History

• The Lessons of History
• A Renegade History of the United States
• The 48 Laws of Power
• Up from Slavery

Education

• The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

Self Improvement

• The Psychology of Self-Esteem
• The Way to Will-Power
• The Tao of Roark

Government and Politics

• The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
• The Law

Sociology and Culture

• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
• Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
• How to Watch TV News

Literature

• The Fountainhead
• Atlas Shrugged
• Frankenstein

Philosophy

• On the Meaning of Life
• The Story of Philosophy

Masculinity

• The Rational Male, Volumes 1, 2, and 3
• The Map: A Personal Guide to the Sexual Marketplace
• Self-Made Man
• The Manipulated Man
• The Myth of Male Power
• The Way of the Superior Man
• Anatomy of Female Power
• No More Mr. Nice Guy