A few years ago I continued my journey to become a true software engineer. I interviewed with big tech names and worked with brilliant people. Along the way, I asked for ways to improve my craft.

The following is the intersection of a long list of books. It has been culled through cross-reference and repeated recommendation. I call this The Reading List. Some believe it's what every software engineer must read.

The Reading List

• Agile Software Development
• Agile Testing
• Analysis Patterns
• Art of Capacity Planning
• Art of Software Testing
• Clean Code
• Code Complete 2
• Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Integration
• Design Patterns
• Domain Driven Design
• Even Faster Web Sites
• Experiences of Test Automation
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
• Founders at Work
• Fundamentals of Object Oriented Design in UML
• Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests
• High Performance MySQL
• High Performance Web Sites
• Implementation Patterns
• JavaScript The Good Parts
• Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties
• Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets
• Large-Scale C++ Software Design
• Lean Architecture
• Lean Startup
• Object Oriented Software Construction
• Out of the Crisis
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Peopleware
• Pragmatic Programmer
• Refactoring Databases
• Refactoring to Patterns
• Refactoring
• Service Design Patterns
• Software Craftsmanship
• Specification by Example
• Succeeding with Agile
• User Stories Applied
• Web Operations
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• xUnit Test Patterns

I want to thank Jeff Moore, who originally provided me this list. Over time there have been few changes.

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