Booklist

My personal list of non-fiction books I am planning to read. All categories are pretty high level and may change anytime.

If you have something to suggest feel free to make a PR.

• 📖 is a link to goodreads/amazon/etc
• ⭐️ high-priority books to be read first
• ‼️ books you do not want to miss

Here is a list of book summary services/websites in case you need it:

• Actionable Books
• Deconstructing Excellence
• Blinkist

Uncategorized

• [x] Lisp Hackers 📖
• [x] ⭐ What if 📖
• [x] The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets 📖
• [ ] A short history of nearly everything 📖
• [ ] Werner Siemens 📖
• [ ] 33 ступеньки в небо 📖
• [ ] A Mathematicians Miscellany 📖
• [ ] A Little Life 📖
• [ ] Confessions of a Terrible Husband: Lessons Learned From a Lumpy Couch 📖

Thinking & Decision Making

• [ ] ⭐ The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving 📖
• [ ] A Leaders Framework for Decision Making 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ The Art of Thinking Clearly 📖
• [ ] ⭐️️️ ‼️ How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking 📖
• [ ] ️⭐️ The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Systems Thinking Made Simple 📖
• [ ] ️⭐️ Thinking in Systems: A Primer 📖
• [ ] Системноинженерное мышление 📖
• [ ] Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ The Book Of Why 📖

Learning

• [x] ⭐️ Make it stick: the Science of Successful Learning 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ Mastery 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ Pragmatic Thinkig and Learning 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ From Novice to Expert 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity 📖

Philosophy

• [x] ⭐ The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well 📖
• [x] ⭐ The Little Book of Lykke 📖
• [x] ‼️ A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy📖
• [x] ‼️ The Choice 📖
• [x] ⭐ Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less 📖
• [x] The Tao of Pooh 📖
• [x] ⭐️️️ The Tao of Physics 📖
• [x] ⭐️️ The Web of Life 📖
• [ ] ⭐️️ Meditations 📖
• [ ] Letters from a Stoic 📖
• [ ] Dialogues and Essays 📖
• [ ] The Myth of Sisyphus 📖
• [ ] The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt 📖
• [ ] The Tides of Mind 📖
• [ ] ‼️ A Little History of Philosophy 📖

Mindset Enhancement

• [x] ‼️ Learned Optimism 📖
• [x] ⭐️️️ ‼️ Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy 📖
• [x] ‼️ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 📖
• [x] ‼️ The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a Fuck 📖
• [x] ‼️ Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ 📖
• [x] ‼️ Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy 📖
• [x] Think and Grow Rich 📖
• [x] Красная таблетка 📖
• [x] Winter Blues 📖
• [x] ⭐️️ The Art Of Loving 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Search Inside Yourself 📖
• [ ] ⭐️️️ ‼️ The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Fooled by Randomness 📖
• [ ] ️⭐️ The Wisdom of Crowds 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Lean Mindset 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion 📖
• [ ] ⭐️️ Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Willpower Instinct 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Mindset: The New Psychology of Success 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Parenting with Presence 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Secret of Quantum Living 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Predictably Irrational 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Habits of a Happy Brain 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ A Short Guide to a Happy Life 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Are your lights on? 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Games People Play 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Selfish Gene 📖
• [ ] An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments 📖
• [ ] The Righteous Mind 📖
• [ ] The Sovereign Individual 📖
• [ ] Mindfulness for Beginners 📖
• [ ] The Defining Decade 📖
• [ ] Апгрейд обезьяны 📖
• [ ] Elite minds 📖
• [ ] The Political Brain 📖
• [ ] Speeches that Changed the World 📖
• [ ] Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer 📖
• [ ] Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership 📖
• [ ] Mind Power Into the 21st Century 📖
• [ ] The Organized Mind 📖
• [ ] The Art of Possibility 📖
• [ ] Joy Inc. 📖
• [ ] Hard Thing About Hard Things 📖
• [ ] First Impressions: You Don’t Know About How Others See You 📖
• [ ] Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Do The Work 📖
• [ ] Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 📖
• [ ] Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management 📖
• [ ] The 1% Rule 📖
• [ ] Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception 📖
• [ ] Developer Hegemony 📖
• [ ] ️️️⭐️ Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective 📖

Social Skills

• [x] ️‼️ Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most 📖
• [x] ‼️ How to win friends and influence people 📖
• [x] ⭐️️️ ‼️ The Social Skills Guidebook 📖
• [ ] ⭐️️️ ‼️ People Skills 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Crucial Conversations 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Getting Past No 📖
• [ ] ⭐ Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life 📖
• [ ] Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time 📖
• [ ] ⭐‼️ Non Violent Communication 📖
• [ ] Dynamic People Skills 📖

UX & Design

• [x] ‼️ Badass: Making Users Awesome 📖
• [x] ‼️ Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products 📖
• [x] ‼️ Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences 📖
• [x] Design for Hackers 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ The Humane Interface 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ The Design of Everyday Things 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Non-Designer's Design Book, The, 4th Edition 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Seductive Interaction Design 📖
• [ ] Designing Web Interfaces. Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions 📖
• [ ] UX for Lean Startups 📖
• [ ] Design For business 📖
• [ ] Design: creation of artifacts in society 📖

Coaching & Teaching

• [x] The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More 📖
• [x] ⭐️ HBR Guide to Coaching Employees 📖
• [x] ⭐️ ‼️ Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman 📖
• [x] ⭐️ What Got You Here Won't Get You There 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ Coaching for Performance 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Free To Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The New Education 📖
• [ ] Open: How We’ll Work, Live and Learn In The Future 📖
• [ ] A Mathematician’s Lament 📖

Health

• [ ] Death by Food Pyramid 📖
• [ ] Live Long Enough to Live Forever 📖
• [ ] Biohacking Book 📖

Science

• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ The Sciences of the Artificial, Third Edition 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces 📖
• [ ] ️⭐️ The art and craft of problem solving 📖
• [ ] ️⭐️ Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Paradoxes of Growth: Laws of Global Development of Humanity 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ A New Kind Of Science 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality 📖
• [ ] A Brief History of Time 📖
• [ ] Sapiens 📖
• [ ] Alice in Quantumland 📖
• [ ] The annotated Turing 📖
• [ ] Entropy 📖
• [ ] Золотой билет. P, NP и границы возможного 📖
• [ ] Scale 📖
• [ ] Smart Spacetime 📖

Engineering & Programming

• [x] ⭐️ ‼️ Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 📖
• [x] ‼️ Release it! 📖
• [x] ‼️ Practical Object-Oriented Desing with Ruby 📖
• [x] Building Microservices 📖
• [x] ‼️ The Passionate Programmer 📖
• [x] ‼️ Soft Skills 📖
• [x] ‼️ ️Clean Code 📖
• [x] ‼️️ Head First Design Patterns 📖
• [x] ‼️ The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master 📖
• [x] Clean Architecture 📖
• [x] Domain Driven Design Distilled 📖
• [x] How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything 📖
• [x] Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition 📖
• [x] ⭐️ The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 📖
• [ ] ⭐ ‼️ Basic Category Theory 📖
• [ ] ⭐ ‼️ The Art of Doing Science and Engineering 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️️ Domain Modeling Made Functional 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️️ High Performance Browser Networking 📖
• [ ] ⭐ High Performance JavaScript 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️️ Structured Computer Organization 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming 📖
• [ ] ⭐️️ ‼️️️ Grokking Algorithms 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Programming Beyond Practices 📖
• [ ] ⭐ Thinking Forth 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ Site Reliability Engineering 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ Working Effectively with Legacy Code 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ Object-Oriented Software Construction (2nd Edition) 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ Designing Data-Intensive Applications 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The nature of software development 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Algorithm Design Manual 2nd Edition 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Functional and Reactive Data Modelling 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Domain Driven Design Quickly 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Software Engineering, 9th edition 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ SWEBOK 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Software Estimation: demistifying the black art 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Elements of Programming Style 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Smalltalk best practices 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Type Driven Development with Idris 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Growing Object Oriented Software with Tests 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Production Ready Microservices 📖
• [ ] ⭐ Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model 📖
• [ ] ⭐ 99 Bottles of OOP 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed 📖
• [ ] ⭐ Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++
• [ ] ⭐ Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts 📖
• [ ] ⭐ Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming 📖
• [ ] ⭐ Getting Clojure 📖
• [ ] TypeScript Deep Dive 📖
• [ ] How Google Tests Software 📖
• [ ] Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks 📖
• [ ] The Imposter's Handbook 📖
• [ ] Haskell Book 📖
• [ ] Why Programs Fail 📖
• [ ] The Art of Readable Code 📖
• [ ] The Inmates are Running the Asylum 📖
• [ ] Resilient Web Design 📖
• [ ] Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software 📖
• [ ] JavaScript: The Good Parts 📖
• [ ] Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture 📖
• [ ] Enterprise Integration Patterns 📖
• [ ] Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications 📖
• [ ] Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code 📖
• [ ] Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) 📖
• [ ] Purely Functional Data Structures 📖
• [ ] Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition 📖
• [ ] The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code 📖
• [ ] Code Simplicity 📖
• [ ] Category Theory 📖
• [ ] Concurrent Programming in ML 📖
• [ ] Feature-Oriented Software Product Lines 📖
• [ ] DevOps Handbook 📖
• [ ] Continuos Delivery 📖
• [ ] Clojure for Brave and True 📖
• [ ] Clojure Reactive Programming 📖
• [ ] Web Development with Clojure 📖
• [ ] Exploratory Software Testing 📖
• [ ] Testing Computer Software 📖
• [ ] Software Architecture For Developers 📖
• [ ] Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline 📖
• [ ] Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days 📖
• [ ] A Philosophy of Software Design 📖
• [ ] Design it! 📖
• [ ] Building Evolutionary Architectures 📖
• [ ] Programming In Martin Löf's Type Theory: An Introduction 📖
• [ ] The Zen Programmer 📖
• [ ] The Tao of Microservices 📖
• [ ] ⭐ Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming 📖
• [ ] Human Factors for Engineers 📖

Career, Skill Acquisition, Personal Growth

• [x] ‼️ Thinking, Fast and Slow 📖
• [x] ‼️ Getting Things Done (2015 edition) 📖
• [x] ‼️ Deep Work 📖
• [x] Make the Most of Your Mind 📖
• [x] So Good They Can't Ignore You 📖
• [x] ⭐️ Work rules! 📖
• [x] Камасутра для оратора 📖
• [x] Из связей в князи 📖
• [x] How to Do What You Love & Earn What You’re Worth as a Programmer 📖
• [x] 80000 hours: Career Guide 📖
• [x] ⭐️ Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise 📖
• [ ] Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers 📖
• [ ] Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear 📖
• [ ] Программирование. Ступени успешной карьеры 📖
• [ ] The 4 Hour Work Week 📖
• [ ] The 48 Laws of Power 📖
• [ ] Fearless salary negotiation 📖
• [ ] The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) 📖
• [ ] Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience 📖
• [ ] The First 20 hours 📖
• [ ] Better than Before 📖
• [ ] Drive 📖
• [ ] The Start-up of You 📖
• [ ] The Denial of Death 📖
• [ ] When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing 📖
• [ ] Million Dollar Consulting 📖
• [ ] The Effective Engineer 📖
• [ ] The Professional: A Manifesto for Business in the 21st Century 📖
• [ ] Cracking the PM Interview 📖

Habits & Lifestyle

• [x] ‼️ Mini Habits 📖
• [x] ⭐ ‼️ Stick With It 📖
• [x] Miracle Morning 📖
• [x] ⭐️ The Power of Habit 📖
• [ ] ️⭐️ Algorithms to live by 📖
• [ ] ️⭐️ Productivity Handbook 📖
• [ ] 52 Small Changes: One Year to a Happier, Healthier You 📖
• [ ] Daily Rituals 📖
• [ ] Reinvent yourself 📖

Finance

• [x] ⭐️ ‼️ Your Money or Your Life 📖
• [x] ⭐️ ‼️ If you can: how millenials can get rich slowly 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Little Book of Common Sense Investing 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ All about Asset Allocation 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Debunking Economics 📖
• [ ] The intelligent investor 📖
• [ ] The Intelligent Asset Allocator 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Four Pillars of Investing 📖
• [ ] Ваши деньги должны работать 📖
• [ ] The Undercover Economist 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ How to Think About Money 📖

Manliness

• [x] The Way Of The Superior Man 📖
• [x] ⭐️ ‼️ No More Mr. Nice Guy 📖
• [x] ️Models 📖
• [x] ⭐️ Man's search for meaning 📖
• [ ] Tao Te Ching 📖

Marketing & Sales

• [x] ⭐️ Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind 📖
• [x] ⭐️ On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction 📖
• [x] ⭐️ Пиши, Сокращай 📖
• [x] ⭐️ How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling 📖
• [x] The Burned-Out Blogger's Guide to PR 📖
• [x] ‼️ Crossing the Chasm 📖
• [x] ‼️ Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ The Professional Marketer 📖
• [ ] ⭐️️️ 15 invaluable laws of growth 📖
• [ ] ⭐️️️ The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Difference 📖
• [ ] Purple Cow: Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable 📖

Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategy

• [x] ‼️ The Secrets of Consulting 📖
• [x] The Lean Startup 📖
• [x] ⭐️ ‼️ Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup 📖
• [x] ⭐️ The 100$ Startup 📖
• [x] ⭐️ ‼️ E-myth revisited 📖
• [x] ⭐️ The ten day MBA 📖
• [x] The Five Dysfunctions of a Team 📖
• [x] Не мешайте мне работать 📖
• [ ] ⭐ Good to Great 📖
• [ ] ⭐ Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture 📖
• [ ] ⭐ ‼️ The art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ ‼️ Five languages of appreciation 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Advantage 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable 📖
• [ ] ⭐️️️ ‼️ Antifragile 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ More Fearless Change 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Flawless Consulting 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Peopleware 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Deadline 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ First, Break All the Rules 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Richest Man in Babylon 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Extreme Programming Explained 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Professional Software Development 📖
• [ ] Rework 📖
• [ ] Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide 📖
• [ ] ⭐ The Manager's Path 📖
• [ ] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager 📖
• [ ] Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed 📖
• [ ] Контент-технология: как, где и о чем говорить с клиентами 📖
• [ ] The War for Talent 📖
• [ ] Playing to win 📖
• [ ] Zero to One 📖
• [ ] Software Engineering Economics 📖
• [ ] The Mythical Man-Month 📖
• [ ] Tribal Leadership 📖
• [ ] The Innovator's Dilemma 📖
• [ ] The Innovator's DNA 📖
• [ ] Your Strategy Needs a Strategy 📖
• [ ] The Four Steps to the Epiphany 📖
• [ ] The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development 📖
• [ ] Customers for Life 📖
• [ ] Async Remote 📖
• [ ] Decisive 📖
• [ ] The Goal 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Theory of Constraints 📖
• [ ] ⭐️ Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation 📖
• [ ] Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance 📖
• [ ] What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-Smart Executive 📖
• [ ] Creating a Software Engineering Culture 📖
• [ ] ⭐ The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You 📖
• [ ] Software, Faster 📖
• [ ] Better Software Faster 📖
• [ ] The 4 Disciplines of Execution 📖
• [ ] The Princilples of Product Development Flow 📖
• [ ] ⭐ Mind of the Strategist: Business Planning for Competitive Advantage 📖
• [ ] Triad Power 📖
• [ ] The Geek Leader's Handbook 📖
• [ ] The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork 📖
• [ ] NoEstimates 📖
• [ ] Agile Estimating and Planning 📖
• [ ] Radical Candor 📖

Religious artifacts

• [ ] Enuma Elish 📖
• [ ] The Mahabharatha 📖
• [ ] Avesta 📖
• [ ] The Book of the Dead 📖
• [ ] Ramayana 📖
• [ ] Journey to the East 📖
• [ ] Введение в Буддологию 📖