Book selection

This page contains a list of books that I have enjoyed reading and that have helped me evolve as a person or as as a software engineer. They are not necessarily related to programming, although most of them probably are. Finally, keep in mind that this is not a frozen list, the goal is to gradually complete it, so you should consult it  periodically to find new interesting readings.

Books about programming

• Code Complete (by Steve McConnell)

• Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (by Peter Seibel)

• The Architecture of Open Source Applications (by Amy Brown and Greg Wilson)

• Effective Java 2 (by Joshua Bloch)

• Java Concurrency in Practice (by Brian Goetz et al.)

• Java Puzzlers (by Joshua Bloch)

• Embedded Android: Porting, Extending and Customizing (by Karim Yaghmour)

• Hacker’s Delight (by Henry S. Warren Jr.)

Books about Product Design and UI/UX

• Smashing Android UI (by Juhani Lehtimaki)

• Microinteractions: Designing with Details (by Dan Saffer)

• The Design of Everyday Things (by Don Dorman)

Books about entrepreneurship

• Once you are lucky, twice you are good (by Sarah Lacy)

• Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love (by Marty Cagan)

• Rework (by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson)

• Founders at work (by Jessica Livingston)

• Business Model Generation (by Alexander Osterwalder)

• Design Driven Innovation (by Roberto Verganti)

• Zero To One Book (by Peter Thiel)

Books about personal development

• Confessions of a public speaker (by Scott Berkun)

• Outliers: The  Story of Success (by Malcolm Gladwell)

• Smartcuts (by Shane Snow)

• The Back of the Napkin (by Dan Roam)

• Search Inside Yourself (by Chade-Men Tan)

Books about writing

• The Writers Journey: Mythic structure for writers (by Christopher Vogler)

• Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting (by Robert McKee)