100 Must Read Technology Books

One Hundred must read tech books, from historical favorites to tech founder biographies, tech novels and some of the new technologies. Let me know if I have missed any of your favorites. 

 1. The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks
2. The Art of Computer Programming by Professor Donald Knuth
3. Refactoring by Martin Fowler
4. Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein
5. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
5. Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
6. Paul Allen Idea Man by Paul Allen
7. The Phoenix Project Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr
8. The Art of Monitoring by James Turnbull
9. The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis
10. Strategy Rules by by David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano
11. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
12. Rework by Jason Fried 
13. The Art of Scalability
14. The Everything Store by Brad Stone
15. Continuous Delivery by David Farley and Jez Humble
16. Infrastructure as Code by Morris Kief
17. Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
18. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
19. Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
20. Software Project Survival Guide by Steve McConnell
21. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnell
22. The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future By Sheila Jasanoff
23. Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History By Thomas Rid
24. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Failure and Random Fortune in Silicon Valley By Antonio Garcia Martinez
25. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy By Cathy O’Neil
26. Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built By Duncan Clark
27. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions By Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
28. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future By Kevin Kelly
29. The Gene: An Intimate History By Siddhartha Mukherjee
30. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars By Nathalia Holt
31. The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World By Brad Stone 
32. Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American by Richard S. Tedlow (2006)
33. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis
34. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas Friedman
35. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
36. Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology by George Gilder 
37. World War 3.0: Microsoft and its Enemies by Ken Auletta
38. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still can’t Get a Date by Robert X
39. Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Chip Company by Tim Jackson
40. The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
41. The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle
42. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
43. How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
44. Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
45. Google's PageRank and Beyond : The Science of Search Engine Rankings By Amy N. Langville , Carl D. Meyer
46. The Cathedral and the Bazaar Essay by Eric S. Raymond
47. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Book by Anthony D. Williams and Don Tapscott
48. Rebel Code Book by Glyn Moody
49. Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business by Richard P. Gabriel and Ronald Goldman
50. The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
51. The Google Story by David Vise and Mark Malseed
52. Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham
53. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
54. Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencion
55. Why Buy the Cow? How the On-Demand Revolution Powers the New Knowledge Economy, by Subrah S. Iyar with Cindy Gordon
56. Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing, by Joe Weinman
57. Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models, by Michael J. Kavis
58. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Book by Nick Bostrom
59. Remote: Office Not Required Book by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried
60. Building a DevOps Culture by Mandi Walls
61. Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, by Jennifer Davis and Katherine Daniels
62. Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations by Barry O'Reilly, Jez Humble, and Joanne Molesky
63. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data by Bruce Schneie
64. The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick
65. Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly by Bertrand Meye
66. Geek Silicon Valley: The Inside Guide To Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale by Ashlee Vance
67. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Issacson
68. E = mc2 by David Bodanis
69. The Visible Ops Handbook by Gene Kim
70. Visible Ops Security by Gene Kim
71. The Google Model by Annika Steiber
72. Clean Code by Robert Cecil Martin
73. The Docker Book by James Turnbull
74. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by by Martin Fowler
75. Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
76. Blockchain: Blueprint for a new Economy By Melanie Swan
77. The Art of Scalability by Martin Lee Abbott and Michael T. Fisher
78. The Age of the Platform by Phil Simon
79. Building Microservices by Sam Newman
80. Streaming Architecture by Ellen Friedman and Ted Dunning
81. Kubernetes Microservices with Docker 2016 by Deepak Vohra
82. RESTful Web APIs Services for a Changing World  By Leonard Richardson, Mike Amundsen, Sam Ruby
83. The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution by T.R. Reid 
84. Machine Learning With Random Forests And Decision Trees: A Visual Guide For Beginners Kindle Edition
by Scott Hartshorn  (Author)
85. The C Programming Language 2nd Edition by Brian W. Kernighan  (Author), Dennis M. Ritchie (Author)

86. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers by Roman Pichler
87. Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
88. Just Enough Software Test Automation by Bruce A. Posey and Daniel J. Mosley
89. CLIENT/SERVER ARCHITECTURE. 2nd edition by Alex Berson
90. Impatient Optimist by Bill Gates
91. Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots by John Markoff
92. Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing by Beth Noveck
93. Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy by David A. Mindell
94. The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind
95. Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future by Brian Clegg
96. Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, by Arnold Thackray, David Brock and Rachel Jones
97. How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery,by Kevin Ashton
98. The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
99. Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
100. The Seventh Sense by Joshua Cooper Ram

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