Reading List & Book Reviews
Welcome to my reading journey! Here you'll find books I'm currently reading, have completed, and want to read next. I share my thoughts, ratings, and notes to help you discover your next great read.
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Currently Reading
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
by Tae Kim
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
by James Clear
The Deadline Effect
by Christopher Cox
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams
by Mickey W. Mantle
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by Erik Larson
Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
by Courtney Love
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
by Stanley McChrystal
Babylon Mystery Religion: Ancient and Modern
by Ralph Edward Woodrow
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
by Karen Berman
Mao: The Unknown Story
by Jung Chang
Ahead in the Cloud: Best Practices for Navigating the Future of Enterprise IT
by Stephen Orban
Favorite Books
A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations
by Matt K Parker
Amazon Simple Storage Service: Getting Started Guide
by Amazon Web Services
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
by Brad Stone
Authentic Communication: Transforming Difficult Conversations in the Workplace
by Fred Kofman
Classic Children's Stories
by Maxine Barry
Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing
by Joe Weinman
All Books (78)
1984 / Animal Farm
by George Orwell
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
Sneak peek into life of a president Well written, felt like you were part of it, would love to see another phase. Can easily be made into a movie
A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations
by Matt K Parker
Ahead in the Cloud: Best Practices for Navigating the Future of Enterprise IT
by Stephen Orban
Amazon Simple Storage Service: Getting Started Guide
by Amazon Web Services
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
by Brad Stone
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
by James Clear
Authentic Communication: Transforming Difficult Conversations in the Workplace
by Fred Kofman
AWS Lambda: Developer Guide
by Amazon Web Services
Babylon Mystery Religion: Ancient and Modern
by Ralph Edward Woodrow
Beyond Bullets: Creative Journaling Ideas to Customize Your Personal Productivity System
by Megan Rutell
Classic Children's Stories
by Maxine Barry
Cloud FinOps: Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management
by J.R. Storment
Cloud Native Architectures: Design high-availability and cost-effective applications for the cloud
by Tom Laszewski
It's really an introduction to cloud computing rather than a guide to start architecting. Good read for beginners in my view
Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing
by Joe Weinman
Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition
by Adkins Lyssa
Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values
by Fred Kofman
Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World
by Dave Snowden
Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
by Courtney Love
Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos
by Darrell Rigby
Elon Musk
by Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk: Biography of a Self-Made Visionary, Entrepreneur and Billionaire (Investing, Entrepreneurship, Success, Innovators, Great Men, Success Principles, Business Advice)
by B. Storm
Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
by Karen Berman
From Impressed to Obsessed: 12 Principles for Turning Customers and Employees into Lifelong Fans
by Jon Picoult
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
by Mark Richards
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 (The How To Talk Series)
by Joanna Faber
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
by Michaeleen Doucleff
Journals
by Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain
by Christopher Sandford
Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
by Dominica Degrandis
Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams
by Mickey W. Mantle
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
by Brian L. Weiss
Mao: The Unknown Story
by Jung Chang
Memos from the Chairman
by Alan C. Greenberg
Minnie-rella (World of Reading)
by Lisa Ann Marsoli
Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years—No Time-outs Needed (Oh Crap Parenting Book 2)
by Jamie Glowacki
Life saver Absolute must read in this day and age of over information, very crisp and succinct. Highly recommended if you are looking for no BS
People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams
by Jono Bacon
If anyone thinking of kicking off a community or a guild. This is a must read
PgMP® Exam Test Preparation: Test Questions, Practice Tests, and Simulated Exams (Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management)
by Ginger Levin
PMI-ACP® Exam Prep, Premier Edition
by Mike Griffiths
Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS
by Shirzad Chamine
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
by Kim Malone Scott
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
by Jeff Sutherland
Software Architecture in Practice
by Bass Len
Source Code: My Beginnings
by Bill Gates
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
by Steven Kotler
Stories Of Work , Life & The Balance In Between
by Tomson Robert
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Strategy to Reality: Making the Impossible Possible for Business Architects, Change Makers and Strategy Execution Leaders
by Whynde Kuehn
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
by Stanley McChrystal
The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
by Robin Sharma
The Art of Business Value
by Mark Schwartz
The Deadline Effect
by Christopher Cox
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
by Gene Kim
Hooked on dev ops !I have read this book after Phoenix and unicorn. Simply brilliantly written and explained. Will definitely try meeting this ideals
The Dying Animal
by Philip Roth
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
by Brad Stone
The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
by Dana Mattioli
The Good Dinosaur Junior Novelization (Disney/Pixar The Good Dinosaur)
by Suzanne Francis
The Intelligent Investor
by Benjamin Graham
Could have been shorter Very long book, could have been shorter. At times it just felt it was being stretched. Otherwise great book for anyone looking to invest
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership
by Fred Kofman
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
by Robin Sharma
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The Myths of Innovation
by Scott Berkun
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
by Tae Kim
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
by Gene Kim
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Scrum Guide - The Definitive Guide to Scrum: The Rules of the Game
by Ken Schwaber
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by Erik Larson
The Trusted Advisor
by David H. Maister
Must read for anyone in knowledge industry !
The Unicorn Project
by Gene Kim
Toy Story 2: The Junior Novelization
by Walt Disney Company
War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age
by Mark Schwartz
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
by Colin Bryar
Writing That Works: How to Communicate Effectively in Business
by Kenneth Roman
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
Your Simple Guide to Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: The 3-step plan to transform your health
by Roy Taylor