40+ books every developer should read

In this article we’ll look at forty plus must-read books for software developers.

Photo by Jonas Jacobsson on Unsplash.com

Here’s the list of books:

1. Clean Code
2. Head First Design Patterns
3. The Software Craftsman
4. Refactoring 2nd
5. Working Effectively w Legacy Code
6. TDD by Example
7. Growing OO Software by Tests
8. Continuous Delivery
9. Pragmatic Programmer 2nd
10. Murphy’s Law and other reasons why things go wrong by Artur Bloch
11. Effective Java by Joshua Bloch
12. Design Patterns by Gang of Four
13. Thinking in Java by Eckels (because it’s the only book to take the thought process behind OO seriously)
14. The Macintosh Way by Guy Kawasaki
15. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
16. A discipline of programming by E. Dijkstra
17. Code Complete by Steve McConnell
18. Extreme Programming Explained
19. 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
20. Clean Architecure by Robert Martin
21. TCP IP Illustrated
22. Microservices: Flexible Software Architecture by Eberhard Wolff
23. Structure and implementation of computer programs
24. Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob
25. Essential Scrum: A Practical guide to the Most Popular Agile Process
26. Domain-driven Design by Evans
27. Elegant objects by Yegor Bugayenko
28. Rapid Development by Steve McConnell
29. Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
30. Death march: The Complete Software Developer’s Guide to Surviving “mission impossible” projects
31. The Goal
32. The Phoenix Project
33. Functional programming in Java by Venkat Subramaniam
34. The Evolution of Microservices by Jonas Boner
35. Joy Inc
36. Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen)
37. Cracking the coding interview
38. Lean by heart the separation of concerns principle
39. Algorithms by Sedgewick and Wayne
40. SQL performance explained by markus Winand
41. Deep C Secrets
42. The mythical man month