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Books

Hey Habr!

Surely each of you has your own set of technical literature, which helped to reach certain heights. But now I'm interested in another question - what books do you read in your spare time?

As for me, an IT specialist is a profession in which you cannot remain without progress, you need to move forward all the time. What would you advise to read to broaden your horizons (fiction and not only)? Thank you.

PS I think the question will be of interest to many.

Answer 1

There were posts about business books: first and second .
Personally, from me, one of the books that really inspires: Rework
On Habré, they wrote about it here and here .

Answer 2

Pragmatic Programmer, Clean Code, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Answer 3

I advise you to read Eliya Goldratt and related books with Theory of Constraint
There is a selection on rutracker, in Russian and English versions, I read 2 books without stopping.

Answer 4

Artist: Neil Stevenson - Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age. The rest did not read, but here they advised
Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"
Psychology, communication:
Cialdini "Psychology of Influence" - strongly turned her look at what is happening around
Eric Berne "Games People Play" - in addition to the previous one, it goes well, you start to fixate and respond differently to some aspects of communication between people
Investing, personal finance:
Savenok “Your money should work”
Pokudov “Personal finance”

Answer 5

Theodore Dreiser with the Trilogy of Desire

Answer 6

Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl
Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars Trilogy

Answer 7

Books by Tom Limoncelli - Time Management for System Administrators and The Practice of Network and System Administration. This is just a must-read for an IT specialist.

Answer 8

I suggest:
* Brooks with his mythical man-month
* McConnell with his Perfect Code
* Read\Listen to everything you can get your hands on about goal setting and prioritization.