Jeff Atwood Book Recommendations

Top 10 Games You Can Play In Your Head, By Yourself

by J. Theophrastus Bartholomew

"This book is *profoundly* weird... next level galaxy brain weird. I mean that as a compliment!" - Jeff Atwood (Source)

Programming Pearls

by Jon Bentley

"The collective wisdom of many journeyman coders distilled into succinct, digestible columns." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

The Mythical Man-Month

Essays on Software Engineering

by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

"Arguably the only classic book in our field. If you haven't read it, shame on you." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

Peopleware

Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco

"If you've ever seen the performance of an all-star sports team suffer due to poor coaching, you'll appreciate this book." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

About Face

The Essentials of Interaction Design

by Alan Cooper

"A fantastically useful book; I've used whole chapters as guides for projects I worked on." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

Beautiful Evidence

by Edward R. Tufte

Jeff Atwood recommended this book on his blog. (Source)

59 Seconds

Change Your Life in Under a Minute

by Richard Wiseman

"Highly recommend." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

by Alan Cooper

"This is the book that introduced the world to the concept of personas." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

Envisioning Information

by Edward R. Tufte

Jeff Atwood recommended this book on his blog. (Source)

The Pragmatic Programmer

From Journeyman to Master

by Andrew Hunt

"Instead of worrying about code, the authors boiled down all the practical approaches that they've found to work in the real world into this one book." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

Regular Expressions Cookbook

by Jan Goyvaerts

"I may be a card carrying member of the 'Keep It Simple Stupid' club, but I'm making a meteor sized exception for regular expressions." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

Visual Explanations

Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

by Edward R. Tufte

"Essential." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte

"Essential." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

Designing Web Usability

by Jakob Nielsen

"A full-on web usability primer." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

Code Complete

A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

by Steve McConnell

"The very act of reading this book already sets you apart from probably ninety percent of your fellow developers. In a good way." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

The Design of Everyday Things

by Don Norman

"Will give you a new appreciation of the 'devil in the details.'" - Jeff Atwood (Source)

Rapid Development

Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell

"The epiphany offered in this book is that making mistakes is good– so long as they are all new, all singing, all dancing mistakes." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

Don't Make Me Think

A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

by Steve Krug

"The single best book on usability I've ever read." - Jeff Atwood (Source)

Masters of Doom

How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

"Please read [this book]. It's such a great book." - Jeff Atwood (Source)