Books that are important to my professional & personal goals. Mostly physical copies. Technical, non-fiction, self-growth, business. Reading list properly tracked from 2016.
- Reading now
- Favourites
- On the way
- Read
- Yet to be read / finished / buffer
- Donated, sold, Put aside, lost, etc.
Author | Title | Publisher |
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Kris Hermans, Cybellium Ltd | Mastering Neo4J database | Independently published |
Jon Bodner | Learning Go, second edition | O'Reilly |
Noel Rappin | Modern CSS with Tailwind, 2e | The Pragmatic Programmers |
Marco Faella | Seriously Good Software | |
Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Leonora F.S. Tindall | Programming Rust | O'Reilly |
Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols | The Rust Programming Language, 2nd Edition (Rust 2021) | No Starch Press |
None at the moment.
Author | Title | Publisher | Note |
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Naval Ravikant | The Almanack of Naval Ravikant | Magrathea Publishing | |
Andrew Hunt & David Thomas | The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition | Addison-Wesley | Absolute #1 favourite |
MJ DeMarco | Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship | Viperion |
# | Author | Title | Publisher | Note |
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12 | Paul Arden | God Explained in a Taxi Ride | Penguin | |
11 | Paul Arden | It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be | Phaidon | |
10 | Kent Beck | Tidy First? A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design | O'Reilly | |
09 | Fred McAllen | Trading the trends | CreateSpace | |
08 | Naval Ravikant | The Almanack of Naval Ravikant | Magrathea Publishing | |
07 | Evan Shive | Understanding Generative AI for Beginners | Independently published | |
06 | Szeged | Szebb lettel, mint voltal, nagy Szeged | Szeged Megyei Jogu Varos Onkormanyzata | |
05 | Jim Donahue | Portrait of Henley-on-Thames | Halsgrove | |
04 | DVSA | The Official DVSA Guide to Learning to Drive (2023) | TSO | |
03 | Fred McAllen | Charting and Technical Analysis | CreateSpace | |
02 | Paul Arden | Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite | Penguin | |
01 | Dan Sullivan, Benjamin Hardy | 10x Is Easier Than 2x | Hay House Business |
# | Author | Title | Publisher | Note |
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04 | Sandro Mancuso | The Software Craftsman | Pearson | |
03 | Tanya Reilly | The Staff Engineer's Path | O'Reilly | |
02 | Bastian Gruber | Rust Web Development | Manning | Fantastic book |
01 | Brad Williams, John James Jacoby, Justin Tadlock | Professional WordPress Plugin Development | Wrox | Second Edition |
# | Author | Title | Publisher | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
11 | Sufyan bin Uzayr | Mastering Rust | CRC Press | Garbage book |
10 | Sufyan bin Uzayr | Web Performance Optimization | CRC Press | |
9 | Brian Sletten | WebAssembly - The Definitive Guide: Safe, Fast, and Portable Code | O'Reilly Media | |
8 | Ken Kousen | Help your boss help you | The Pragmatic Programmers | |
7 | Baxter Hines | Digital Finance: Security Tokens and Unlocking the Real Potential of Blockchain | Wiley | |
6 | David Farley | Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster | Addison-Wesley Professional | |
5 | Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols | The Rust Programming Language (Rust 2018) | No Starch Press | |
4 | Andrew Hunt & David Thomas | The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition | Addison-Wesley | |
3 | Prime Minister's Office | The Queen's Speech 2022 | UK GOV | |
2 | Conor Svensson | The Blockchain Innovator's Handbook | Rethink Press | |
1 | MJ DeMarco | Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship | Viperion |
# | Author | Title | Publisher | Note |
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1 | Brent Donnelly | The Art of Currency Trading | Wiley | Sold |
# | Author | Title | Publisher | Note |
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13 | Alexander Elder | The New Trading For a Living | Wiley | Sold |
12 | Peter L. Brandt | Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader | Wiley | Sold |
11 | Steven Pressfield | The War of Art | Black Irish Entertainment LLC | |
10 | Ed Ponsi | Forex Patterns and Probabilities: Trading Strategies for Trending and Range–Bound Markets | Wiley | Sold |
9 | Dominic Frisby | Bitcoin: The Future of Money? | Unbound | |
8 | Jason Stapleton | The Nomadic Wealth Formula | Independently published | |
7 | Daniel Drescher | Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps | Apress | |
6 | Phil M. Jones | Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact (audiobook) | Page Two | |
5 | DK | How Business Works: The Facts Simply Explained | DK | |
4 | DK | How Money Works: The Facts Visually Explained | DK | |
3 | Mark Douglas | Trading in the Zone | Nyif | |
2 | DVSA | The Official Highway Code | TSO | |
1 | Jack Donovan | The Way of Men | Dissonant Hum |
# | Author | Title | Publisher | Note |
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18 | Larry Ullman, Andreas Signer | C++ Programming | Peachpit Press | |
17 | Cal Evans | Going Pro (ebook) | LeanPub | |
16 | Ray Dalio | Principles: Life and Work | Simon & Schuster | |
15 | Robert T. Kiyosaki | Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant (audiobook) | Plata Publishing | |
14 | Napoleon Hill | Think and Grow Rich! | Mindpower Press | |
13 | Robert T. Kiyosaki | Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ (audiobook) | Plata Publishing | |
12 | David Bach | The Automatic Millionaire (audiobook) | Broadway Books | |
11 | Rober T. Kiyosaki | Rich Dad, Poor Dad (audiobook) | Plata Publishing | |
10 | Tim Ferriss | The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (audiobook) | Vermilion | |
09 | Michael Lewis | The Big Short | Penguin | |
08 | Larry Pesavento, Leslie Jouflas | Trade What You See | Wiley | |
07 | John Stepek | The Sceptical Investor | Harriman House | |
06 | Vladimir Poltoratskiy | Trading Code Is Open | Independently published | Sold |
05 | Paul Langer | The Black Book of Forex Trading | CreateSpace | Sold |
04 | Zack Carr, Dr Andrew Aziz | How to Trade Forex and Currency Markets | CreateSpace | |
03 | Várkuti Géza | FOREX Trading - Az alapoktól a mesterfogásokig | Fekete Sas Kiadó | |
02 | Dr Andrew Aziz | How to Day Trade for a Living | CreateSpace | Sold |
01 | Fred McAllen | Charting and Technical Analysis | CreateSpace |
# | Author | Title | Publisher | Note |
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31 | Robert C. Martin | Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship | Prentice Hall | Skimmed, Sold |
30 | John C. Bogle | The Little Book of Common Sense Investing | John Wiley & Sons | |
29 | DVSA | The Official DVSA Theory Test for Car Drivers | TSO | |
28 | Stephen Sutherland | How to Make Money in ISAs and SIPPs: Tax-efficient Investing Made Easy | Matador | |
27 | DVSA | The Official DVSA Guide to Learning to Drive | TSO | |
26 | Donald A. Norman | The Design of Everyday Things, revised and expanded edition | MIT Press | Sold |
25 | DVSA | The Official DVSA Guide to Driving | TSO | |
24 | DVSA | The Official Highway Code | TSO | |
23 | Claire Barratt | Guide to Urban Engineering: Infrastructure and Technology in the Modern Landscape | The History Press | |
22 | Drew De Soto | Know Your Onions: Graphic Design | BIS | |
21 | Lars Kroijer | Investing Demystified | FT Publishing | |
20 | Andy Maslen | Write To Sell: The Ultimate Guide to Great Copywriting | Marshall Cavendish | |
19 | Rob Moore | Money | John Murray Learning | |
18 | Graham Allcott | How to Be a Productivity Ninja | Icon Books | Donated |
17 | Ónodi György | Feketeleves - Avagy volt egyszer egy Heti Hetes | Jaffa | |
16 | Davey Shafik, Lorna Mitchell, Matthew Turland | PHP Master: Write Cutting Edge Code | SitePoint | |
15 | Lorna Jane Mitchell | PHP Web Services: APIs for the Modern Web | O'Reilly | |
14 | Ben Edmunds | Securing PHP Apps | Apress | |
13 | Steve Prettyman | PHP Arrays: Single, Multi-dimensional, Associative and Object Arrays in PHP 7 | Apress | |
12 | David Powers | PHP Object - Oriented Solutions | friends of ED | Donated |
11 | Jonathan Hobbs | Stop Saving Start Investing | Independently Published | |
10 | Josh Lockhart | Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices | O'Reilly Media | |
09 | Chris Middleton | Kreatív Digitális Zene és Hang | Scholar Music | |
08 | Larry Ullman | PHP Advanced And Object-Oriented Programming | Peachpit Press | |
07 | Larry Ullman | PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites (Fourth Edition) | Peachpit Press | |
06 | Brad Williams, Ozh Richard, Justin Tadlock | Professional WordPress Plugin Development | Wrox | |
05 | Van Tharp | Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom | McGraw-Hill Education | |
04 | Andrew Craig | How to Own the World | CreateSpace | |
03 | David Allen | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity | Piatkus | |
02 | Kepes András | Világkép | Libri | |
01 | Robert C. Martin | The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers | Prentice Hall |
# | Author | Title | Publisher | Note |
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35 | Perry Marshall | 80/20 Sales and Marketing | Donated | |
34 | Wladston Ferreira Filho, Raimondo Pictet | Computer Science Distilled | Code Energy | |
33 | Chris Coyier | Practical SVG | A Book Apart | |
32 | Ryan Tate | The 20% Doctrine | HarperBusiness | For sale |
31 | Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern | Professional WordPress: Design and Development | Wrox | |
30 | Thord Daniel Hedengren | Smashing WordPress | John Wiley & Sons | Donated |
29 | Lindsay Bassett | Introduction to JavaScript Object Notation: A To-the-Point Guide to JSON | O'Reilly | |
28 | Alan Forbes | The Joy of Bootstrap | CreateSpace | |
27 | Paul Boag | User Experience Revolution | Smashing Magazine | Sold |
26 | Stefan Baumgartner | Front-End Tooling with Gulp, Bower, and Yeoman | Manning Publications | For sale |
25 | Heydon Pickering | Inclusive Design Patterns | Smashing Magazine | |
24 | Jules Goddard, Tony Eccles | Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense: Why Some Organisations Consistently Outperform Others | Profile Books | |
23 | Jon Duckett | HTML & Css: Design and Build Websites | John Wiley & Sons | |
22 | Marc Lawson & Steve Hackney | Why Businesses Stop Growing | AFT Publishing | |
21 | Edwin A. Abbott | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions | Dover Publications | |
20 | Greg Sidelnikov | React.js Book | Independently published | Donated |
19 | Jeremy Sydik | Design Accessible Web Sites: 36 Keys to Creating Content for All Audiences and Platforms | Pragmatic Bookshelf | Donated |
18 | Kirupa Chinnathambi | Learning React | Addison Wesley | Sold |
17 | Alex Becker | 10 Pillars of Wealth: Mind-Sets of the World's Wealthiest People | Brown Books Publishing | |
16 | Manuel Kiessling | The Node Beginner Book | lulu.com | Donated |
15 | Rolf Dobelli | The Art of Thinking Clearly | Sceptre | |
14 | Kyle Simpson | You Don't Know JS: Types & Grammar | O'Reilly Media | |
13 | Grant Cardone | Be Obsessed or Be Average | Portfolio | |
12 | Grant Cardone | The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure | John Wiley & Sons | |
11 | Kyle Simpson | You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes | O'Reilly Media | |
10 | Shane Snow | Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking | HarperBusiness | |
09 | Kyle Simpson | You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures | O'Reilly Media | |
08 | John Resig | Pro JavaScript Techniques | Apress | |
07 | Kyle Simpson | You Don't Know JS: Up & Going | O'Reilly Media | |
06 | Toni Negrino and Dori Smith | JavaScript (Ninth Edition) | Peachpit Press | |
05 | Marijn Haverbeke | Eloquent JavaScript (Second Edition) | No Starch Press | |
04 | Ka Wai Cheung | The Developer's Code | The Pragmatic Bookshelf | |
03 | Mark Myers | A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript | Amazon | Donated |
02 | Benjamin P. Hardy | Slipstream Time Hacking | Amazon | |
01 | Nicholas Bate | You, only better | Capstone | Donated |
# | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
19 | Wallace D. Wattles | Financial Success | Destiny Books |
18 | Win Wenger | The Einstein Factor | Three Valleys Press |
17 | Chad Fowler | The Passionate Programmer | The Pragmatic Bookshelf |
16 | Amen Sharma | The Google Checklist: Marketing Edition 2016 | CreateSpace |
15 | Amen Sharma, Gareth James, Romeo Martin J. Rosales, Rumena Begum | Blogging Made Easy | CreateSpace |
14 | Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg | How Google Works | John Murray |
13 | Andy Hunt & Venkat Subramaniam | Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World | The Pragmatic Bookshelf |
12 | Andy Hunt | Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware | The Pragmatic Bookshelf |
11 | Leif Kendall | Brilliant Freelancer: Discover the Power of Your Own Success | Pearson |
10 | David Kadavy | Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty | Wiley |
09 | Tiffany B Brown | CSS Master | SitePoint |
08 | Travis Swicegood | Pragmatic Guide to Git | The Pragmatic Bookshelf |
07 | John Sonmez | Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual | Manning |
06 | Andrew Hunt & David Thomas | The Pragmatic Programmer - from journeyman to master | Addison-Wesley |
05 | Hampton Catlin and Michael Lintorn Catlin | Pragmatic Guide to Sass | The Pragmatic Bookshelf |
04 | Steve Krug | Don't Make Me Think (Revisited) - A Common Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Usability | New Riders |
04 | Lea Verou | CSS Secrets - better solutions to everyday web design problems | O'Reilly |
03 | Steven Bradley | CSS Animations and Transitions for the Modern Web | Adobe Press |
02 | Peter Bell and Brent Beer | Introducing GitHub | O'Reilly |
01 | Rob Cole and Edward Scotcher | Brilliant Agile Project Management | Pearson |
Author | Title | Publisher |
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Justin Gehtland, Ben Galbraith, Dion Almaer | Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer | The Pragmatic Bookshelf |
Jay Blanchard | jQuery & jQuery UI | Peachpit Press |
Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop | HTML5 and CSS3 (Seventh Edition) | Peachpit Press |
Leil Lowndes | How to Talk to Anyone | Harper Element |
(many, many others...) |
Author | Title | Publisher | Note |
---|---|---|---|
Tony Robbins | Money Master the Game | Simon & Schuster UK | Skimmed, Donated |
Tony Robbins | Awaken The Giant Within | Simon & Schuster UK | Donated |
Tom Chatfield | 50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know | Quercus | Donated |
Vladimir Poltoratskiy | Trading Code Is Open, Book 2 | Independently published | Sold |
Vladimir Poltoratskiy | Trading Code Is Open, Book 3 | Independently published | Sold |
Vladimir Poltoratskiy | Trading Code Is Open, Book 4 | Independently published | Sold |
Marc Gregoire | Professional C++ (Fourth edition) | Wrox | For sale |
Tom Standage | The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine That Fooled the World | Allen Lane | Donated |
Matt Stauffer | Laravel - Up and Running | O'Reilly | Sold |
Bob Volman | Forex Price Action Scalping | Light Tower Publishing | Sold, Unread |
GM Weinberg | Understanding the Professional Programmer | John Wiley & Sons | Donated |
Juho Tuomas Vepsäläinen, Jesús Rodríguez Rodríguez, Artem Sapegin, Pedr Browne, Tobias Koppers | SurviveJS - Webpack: From apprentice to master | 978-952-68688 | Sold |
Marc Wandschneider | Learning Node.js | Addison Wesley | Sold |
Hassan Djirdeh, Nate Murray, Ari Lerner | Fullstack Vue: The Complete Guide to Vue.js | CreateSpace | Sold |
Adobe Creative Team | Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book | Adobe | Never arrived |
Steve McConnell | Software Project Survival Guide (Developer Best Practices) | Microsoft Press | Donated |
Richard Reeves, John Knell | The 80 Minute MBA | Business Plus | Donated |
Erik T. Ray | Learning XML | O'Reilly | Donated |