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[Year End] What was the best book you read this year?

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Jaydip Parikh

Just started "Psychology of Money", So far so good

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Saloni Goyal

Wow, the title in themselves are so good, makes want to read all of these right now.. Thank-you so much.

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Blossom Babs

Hunger games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Technical book: Eloquent javascript by Marijn Haverbeke

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wayiam

Elon Musk's Biography by Ashlee Vance and The One Thing by Gary W. Keller & Jay Papasan.

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Dawud Ibrahim Ismail

"Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright" . This book covers a lot on how to develop proper engineering practices making codebase sustainable and healthy.

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Saloni Goyal

Need to read this!!

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Dawud Ibrahim Ismail

You'll love it

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Michael D. Callaghan

Loserthink by Scott Adams, which inspired me to write Don’t Say That at Work.

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Saloni Goyal

Woah, that's amazing. Adding both these books to my list.
Congratulations to you on the book. 🔥

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Camille Hodoul

Data & Reality by William Kent. It's a relatively old book about data modeling , but it's very enlightening!
It isn't bound to a specific technology (that's one of the points its making), so it doesn't show its age at all.

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Saloni Goyal

Timeless books are my all time favourite.

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Camille Hodoul

Can't agree more! Thank you for this thread, added a bunch to my reading list

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Kimberlee Johnson

It's tough to choose, but if I have to pick one that I think was most useful (how I'm defining best), then I have to go with Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson and team. I've applied its tactics to all sorts of tough conversations (at work, technical, and personal). While I'm no means an expert and not all of those conversations went perfectly, that book has helped me be a better communicator.

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Saloni Goyal

Adding it to my list. 😃

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Juan F Gonzalez

So far, it has to be "The Infinite Game" by Simon Sinek.
Although making that decision is quite hard. There are so many good contenders.

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Saloni Goyal

Just got it delivered few days back. Looking forward to reading it.
Think it will be a life changer.

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