Books

Interesting books:

• xUnit Test Patterns - Gerard Meszaros
  
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler
  
• The Art of Project Management - Scott Berkun
  
• Writing Effective Use Cases - Alistair Cockburn
  
• Test Driven Development - Kent Beck
  
• Domain-Driven Design - Eric Evans
  
• Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler
  
• Applying UML and patterns - Craig Larman
  

C# list created by Eric Lippert [source: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1769249]:

• Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2010 in 24 Hours - Scott Dorman, introduced material in order of increasing complexity not the development of the language, good for beginners,
  
• Essential C# 4.0 - Mark Michaelis, for intermediate-to-advanced C# developers, 
  
• C# In Depth, 2nd Edition - Jon Skeet, dry British humor,
  
• Effective C#, 2nd Edition - Bill Wagner 
  
• More Effective C# - Bill Wagner, help deliver high quality code, understand language at a deep level, also articles:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb308727 
  
• The C# Programming Language, 4th edition - Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth and Peter Golde, contains more documentation than MSDN
  
• Java Puzzlers - Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter, evident sense of fun, lesson for language designers,
  
• Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition - Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein, mutable structures,
  
• Purely Functional Data Structures - Chris Okasaki, immutable, functional style.
  

Lean

• Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
  
• Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works
  
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
  
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
  

[ Source: http://blog.iterate.no/2012/08/19/books-everybody-should-read/ ]

Statistics

• Statistics, D. Freedman, R. Pisani, R. Purves.
  
• Forecasting: Methods and Applications, R. Hyndman et al.
  
• Multiple Regression and Beyond, T. Z. Keith
  

Perception

• Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
  
• Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
  
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
  

Surprisingly undervalued books

• Impro, Keith Johnstone,
  
• The Inner Game of Tennis, Timothy Gallwey,
  
• The Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein,
  
• Raise High The Roofbeams, Carpenter / Seymour: An Introduction, J.D. Salinger,
  
• Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Stephen Booth,
  
• Principles, Ray Dalio,
  
• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards.

[ Source: http://blog.nabeelqu.com/post/33557680375/surprisingly-undervalued-books ]

Other

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