Book recommendations?

Looking for book recommendations of any kind! Leave your faves below 📚

Comments

[Mike Bybee]

I'll go big

• in literal size
• in florid, poetic verbosity of prose
• in intricate backstory
• in incredible, "larger than life" characters
• in emotions it evokes (ever had a book make you cry and smile at the same time?)
• in declaring it the greatest novel ever written:

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

[mrbandler]

• Homo Deus
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Life 3.0
• Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
• How Not to Be Wrong

[kethmars]

Thinking fast and slow - a true masterpiece every developer can learn from. It help you to think critically.

You can check out my Dev.to article on the book:
dev.to/kethmars/how-i-learned-to-t...

[Aldo Cid Siqueira]

99 Bottles of OOP. It teachs a lot of design techniques with cool examples.

[Jérémie Astor]

My absolute favorite:

Robert's Grave The white goddess from which I learn about Taliesin which in turn made me name my programming language Gwion.

I'd also advice reading Mircea Eliade Aspects du mythe (sorry I can't find it's name in english).

Anything by Selma Lagerlof.

Also look at the eerie similarities beetwen Eliade's Thirteen roses and Orhan Pamuk's Snow.

[Margo McCabe]

I just reread The Glass Castle, which is a unique & inspiring memoir. Next on my list is Pachinko which has been recommended a few times.

[Sandor Dargo]

I've just collected all my book reviews at DevReads, you might find there something interesting.

Right now, I'm reading Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday.

Regarding IT, I've read Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software that is an excellent overview of our profession's history.

[JoelBonetR 🥇]

There's a book that made me cry: Java Algorithms and Data Structures :D

[Meli H]

why is that?

[JoelBonetR 🥇]

Well that was a joke but you can learn about data structures on a more appropriate or efficient way 😂

[Bobby Iliev]

'The Phoenix Project' is awesome!

[Ben Sinclair]

I hear The House At Pooh Corner is awfully nice.