Books to read in 2009
As you may have seen in my New Year’s resolutions post, I am aiming to read 12 professional development books this year. In this post I’m going to give a list of books that I’m looking at. This may change throughout the year, but at least I have a starting point now.
1.) Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
2.) Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck
3.) Code Complete: 2nd Edition by Steve McConnell
4.) Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
5.) Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
6.) Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality And Reducing Risk by Paul M. Duvall, Steve Matyas, Andrew Glover
7.) Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky
8.) Release It! Design and deploy production-ready software by Michael T. Nygard
9.) Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides
10.) Patterns Of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
11.) Test-Driven Development by Kent Beck
12.) The Mythical Man-Month, 20th Anniversary Edition by Frederick P. Brooks
Wild Card Picks:
Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life by David Allen
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition) by Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister
So that is the tentative list of books that I will be reading in 2009. They are not necessarily in the order in which I hope to read them, and like I’ve mentioned, the list may change altogether. Do you have any suggestions for ways to improve this list? Do you have a list of your own?
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Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.
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