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BRAINFEED - Books

Books that are important to my professional & personal goals. Mostly physical copies. Technical, non-fiction, self-growth, business. Reading list properly tracked from 2016.


Reading now:

Author Title Publisher
DVSA The Official DVSA Guide to Learning to Drive (2023) TSO
Noel Rappin Modern CSS with Tailwind, 2e The Pragmatic Programmers
Marco Faella Seriously Good Software
Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Leonora F.S. Tindall Programming Rust O'Reilly
Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols The Rust Programming Language, 2nd Edition (Rust 2021) No Starch Press

On the way...

None at the moment.


Favourites

Author Title Publisher Note
Andrew Hunt & David Thomas The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition Addison-Wesley Absolute #1 favourite
MJ DeMarco Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship Viperion

Finished reading

In 2024

# Author Title Publisher Note
03 Fred McAllen Charting and Technical Analysis CreateSpace
02 Paul Arden Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite Penguin
01 Dan Sullivan, Benjamin Hardy 10x Is Easier Than 2x Hay House Business

In 2023

# Author Title Publisher Note
04 Sandro Mancuso The Software Craftsman Pearson
03 Tanya Reilly The Staff Engineer's Path O'Reilly
02 Bastian Gruber Rust Web Development Manning Fantastic book
01 Brad Williams, John James Jacoby, Justin Tadlock Professional WordPress Plugin Development Wrox Second Edition

In 2022

# Author Title Publisher Note
11 Sufyan bin Uzayr Mastering Rust CRC Press Garbage book
10 Sufyan bin Uzayr Web Performance Optimization CRC Press
9 Brian Sletten WebAssembly - The Definitive Guide: Safe, Fast, and Portable Code O'Reilly Media
8 Ken Kousen Help your boss help you The Pragmatic Programmers
7 Baxter Hines Digital Finance: Security Tokens and Unlocking the Real Potential of Blockchain Wiley
6 David Farley Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster Addison-Wesley Professional
5 Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols The Rust Programming Language (Rust 2018) No Starch Press
4 Andrew Hunt & David Thomas The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition Addison-Wesley
3 Prime Minister's Office The Queen's Speech 2022 UK GOV
2 Conor Svensson The Blockchain Innovator's Handbook Rethink Press
1 MJ DeMarco Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship Viperion

In 2021

# Author Title Publisher Note
1 Brent Donnelly The Art of Currency Trading Wiley Sold

In 2020

# Author Title Publisher Note
13 Alexander Elder The New Trading For a Living Wiley Sold
12 Peter L. Brandt Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader Wiley Sold
11 Steven Pressfield The War of Art Black Irish Entertainment LLC
10 Ed Ponsi Forex Patterns and Probabilities: Trading Strategies for Trending and Range–Bound Markets Wiley Sold
9 Dominic Frisby Bitcoin: The Future of Money? Unbound
8 Jason Stapleton The Nomadic Wealth Formula Independently published
7 Daniel Drescher Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps Apress
6 Phil M. Jones Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact (audiobook) Page Two
5 DK How Business Works: The Facts Simply Explained DK
4 DK How Money Works: The Facts Visually Explained DK
3 Mark Douglas Trading in the Zone Nyif
2 DVSA The Official Highway Code TSO
1 Jack Donovan The Way of Men Dissonant Hum

In 2019

# Author Title Publisher Note
18 Larry Ullman, Andreas Signer C++ Programming Peachpit Press
17 Cal Evans Going Pro (ebook) LeanPub
16 Ray Dalio Principles: Life and Work Simon & Schuster
15 Robert T. Kiyosaki Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant (audiobook) Plata Publishing
14 Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich! Mindpower Press
13 Robert T. Kiyosaki Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ (audiobook) Plata Publishing
12 David Bach The Automatic Millionaire (audiobook) Broadway Books
11 Rober T. Kiyosaki Rich Dad, Poor Dad (audiobook) Plata Publishing
10 Tim Ferriss The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (audiobook) Vermilion
09 Michael Lewis The Big Short Penguin
08 Larry Pesavento, Leslie Jouflas Trade What You See Wiley
07 John Stepek The Sceptical Investor Harriman House
06 Vladimir Poltoratskiy Trading Code Is Open Independently published Sold
05 Paul Langer The Black Book of Forex Trading CreateSpace Sold
04 Zack Carr, Dr Andrew Aziz How to Trade Forex and Currency Markets CreateSpace
03 Várkuti Géza FOREX Trading - Az alapoktól a mesterfogásokig Fekete Sas Kiadó
02 Dr Andrew Aziz How to Day Trade for a Living CreateSpace Sold
01 Fred McAllen Charting and Technical Analysis CreateSpace

In 2018

# Author Title Publisher Note
31 Robert C. Martin Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Prentice Hall Skimmed, Sold
30 John C. Bogle The Little Book of Common Sense Investing John Wiley & Sons
29 DVSA The Official DVSA Theory Test for Car Drivers TSO
28 Stephen Sutherland How to Make Money in ISAs and SIPPs: Tax-efficient Investing Made Easy Matador
27 DVSA The Official DVSA Guide to Learning to Drive TSO
26 Donald A. Norman The Design of Everyday Things, revised and expanded edition MIT Press Sold
25 DVSA The Official DVSA Guide to Driving TSO
24 DVSA The Official Highway Code TSO
23 Claire Barratt Guide to Urban Engineering: Infrastructure and Technology in the Modern Landscape The History Press
22 Drew De Soto Know Your Onions: Graphic Design BIS
21 Lars Kroijer Investing Demystified FT Publishing
20 Andy Maslen Write To Sell: The Ultimate Guide to Great Copywriting Marshall Cavendish
19 Rob Moore Money John Murray Learning
18 Graham Allcott How to Be a Productivity Ninja Icon Books Donated
17 Ónodi György Feketeleves - Avagy volt egyszer egy Heti Hetes Jaffa
16 Davey Shafik, Lorna Mitchell, Matthew Turland PHP Master: Write Cutting Edge Code SitePoint
15 Lorna Jane Mitchell PHP Web Services: APIs for the Modern Web O'Reilly
14 Ben Edmunds Securing PHP Apps Apress
13 Steve Prettyman PHP Arrays: Single, Multi-dimensional, Associative and Object Arrays in PHP 7 Apress
12 David Powers PHP Object - Oriented Solutions friends of ED Donated
11 Jonathan Hobbs Stop Saving Start Investing Independently Published
10 Josh Lockhart Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices O'Reilly Media
09 Chris Middleton Kreatív Digitális Zene és Hang Scholar Music
08 Larry Ullman PHP Advanced And Object-Oriented Programming Peachpit Press
07 Larry Ullman PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites (Fourth Edition) Peachpit Press
06 Brad Williams, Ozh Richard, Justin Tadlock Professional WordPress Plugin Development Wrox
05 Van Tharp Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom McGraw-Hill Education
04 Andrew Craig How to Own the World CreateSpace
03 David Allen Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity Piatkus
02 Kepes András Világkép Libri
01 Robert C. Martin The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers Prentice Hall

In 2017

# Author Title Publisher Note
35 Perry Marshall 80/20 Sales and Marketing Donated
34 Wladston Ferreira Filho, Raimondo Pictet Computer Science Distilled Code Energy
33 Chris Coyier Practical SVG A Book Apart
32 Ryan Tate The 20% Doctrine HarperBusiness For sale
31 Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern Professional WordPress: Design and Development Wrox
30 Thord Daniel Hedengren Smashing WordPress John Wiley & Sons Donated
29 Lindsay Bassett Introduction to JavaScript Object Notation: A To-the-Point Guide to JSON O'Reilly
28 Alan Forbes The Joy of Bootstrap CreateSpace
27 Paul Boag User Experience Revolution Smashing Magazine Sold
26 Stefan Baumgartner Front-End Tooling with Gulp, Bower, and Yeoman Manning Publications For sale
25 Heydon Pickering Inclusive Design Patterns Smashing Magazine
24 Jules Goddard, Tony Eccles Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense: Why Some Organisations Consistently Outperform Others Profile Books
23 Jon Duckett HTML & Css: Design and Build Websites John Wiley & Sons
22 Marc Lawson & Steve Hackney Why Businesses Stop Growing AFT Publishing
21 Edwin A. Abbott Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Dover Publications
20 Greg Sidelnikov React.js Book Independently published Donated
19 Jeremy Sydik Design Accessible Web Sites: 36 Keys to Creating Content for All Audiences and Platforms Pragmatic Bookshelf Donated
18 Kirupa Chinnathambi Learning React Addison Wesley Sold
17 Alex Becker 10 Pillars of Wealth: Mind-Sets of the World's Wealthiest People Brown Books Publishing
16 Manuel Kiessling The Node Beginner Book lulu.com Donated
15 Rolf Dobelli The Art of Thinking Clearly Sceptre
14 Kyle Simpson You Don't Know JS: Types & Grammar O'Reilly Media
13 Grant Cardone Be Obsessed or Be Average Portfolio
12 Grant Cardone The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure John Wiley & Sons
11 Kyle Simpson You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes O'Reilly Media
10 Shane Snow Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking HarperBusiness
09 Kyle Simpson You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures O'Reilly Media
08 John Resig Pro JavaScript Techniques Apress
07 Kyle Simpson You Don't Know JS: Up & Going O'Reilly Media
06 Toni Negrino and Dori Smith JavaScript (Ninth Edition) Peachpit Press
05 Marijn Haverbeke Eloquent JavaScript (Second Edition) No Starch Press
04 Ka Wai Cheung The Developer's Code The Pragmatic Bookshelf
03 Mark Myers A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript Amazon Donated
02 Benjamin P. Hardy Slipstream Time Hacking Amazon
01 Nicholas Bate You, only better Capstone Donated

In 2016

# Author Title Publisher
19 Wallace D. Wattles Financial Success Destiny Books
18 Win Wenger The Einstein Factor Three Valleys Press
17 Chad Fowler The Passionate Programmer The Pragmatic Bookshelf
16 Amen Sharma The Google Checklist: Marketing Edition 2016 CreateSpace
15 Amen Sharma, Gareth James, Romeo Martin J. Rosales, Rumena Begum Blogging Made Easy CreateSpace
14 Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg How Google Works John Murray
13 Andy Hunt & Venkat Subramaniam Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World The Pragmatic Bookshelf
12 Andy Hunt Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware The Pragmatic Bookshelf
11 Leif Kendall Brilliant Freelancer: Discover the Power of Your Own Success Pearson
10 David Kadavy Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty Wiley
09 Tiffany B Brown CSS Master SitePoint
08 Travis Swicegood Pragmatic Guide to Git The Pragmatic Bookshelf
07 John Sonmez Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual Manning
06 Andrew Hunt & David Thomas The Pragmatic Programmer - from journeyman to master Addison-Wesley
05 Hampton Catlin and Michael Lintorn Catlin Pragmatic Guide to Sass The Pragmatic Bookshelf
04 Steve Krug Don't Make Me Think (Revisited) - A Common Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Usability New Riders
04 Lea Verou CSS Secrets - better solutions to everyday web design problems O'Reilly
03 Steven Bradley CSS Animations and Transitions for the Modern Web Adobe Press
02 Peter Bell and Brent Beer Introducing GitHub O'Reilly
01 Rob Cole and Edward Scotcher Brilliant Agile Project Management Pearson

Before 2016 (incomplete)

Author Title Publisher
Justin Gehtland, Ben Galbraith, Dion Almaer Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Jay Blanchard jQuery & jQuery UI Peachpit Press
Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop HTML5 and CSS3 (Seventh Edition) Peachpit Press
Leil Lowndes How to Talk to Anyone Harper Element
(many, many others...)

Yet to be read or finished / buffer:

Author Title Publisher Note
DVSA The Official DVSA Guide to Driving (2023) TSO
DVSA The Official Highway Code (2023) TSO
Andrew Grove Only the Paranoid Survive Profile Books
William E Jr Shotts The Linux Command Line No Starch Press
Prabhu Eshwarla Rust Servers, Services, and Apps Manning
Shing Lyu, Andrew Reznik Practical Rust Projects: Build Serverless, AI, Machine Learning, Embedded, Game, and Web Applications Apress
Tim McNamara Rust in Action Manning
Shing Lyu Practical Rust Web Projects: Building Cloud and Web-Based Applications Apress
Jon Gjengset Rust for Rustaceans: Idiomatic Programming for Experienced Developers No Starch Press
Steve Donovan A Gentle Introduction to Rust E-book, self-published
Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living Profile Books
Presser Gábor Presser Könyve 1 Helikon
Herbert Wolverson Rust Brain Teasers The Pragmatic Programmers
Carlo Milanesi Creative Projects for Rust Programmers Packt Publishing
Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen Practical WebAssembly: Explore the fundamentals of WebAssembly programming using Rust Packt Publishing
DK How Technology Works: The facts visually explained (How Things Work) DK
Maxwell Flitton Rust Web Programming: A hands-on guide to developing fast and secure web apps with the Rust programming language Packt Publishing
Seth S. Horowitz The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind Bloomsbury USA
Paul Arden Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite Penguin
Presser Gábor Presser Könyve 2 Helikon
Dominic Frisby Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future Portfolio Penguin
Stephen R. Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Simon and Schuster
Matt Zandstra PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice Apress
Michael Dawson Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner (Third Edition) Course Technology PTR
Various Authors Smashing Book 6: New Frontiers in Web Design Smashing Magazine
Kyle Simpson You Don't Know JS: ES6 & Beyond O'Reilly Media
Robert C. Martin Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design Prentice Hall
Lauren Graham Talking As Fast As I Can Virago
Dan Charnas Work Clean: The Life-Changing Power of Mise-En-Place to Organize Your Life, Work and Mind Portfolio Penguin
Tim Ferriss Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers Vermilion
Benedict Carey How We Learn: Throw out the rule book and unlock your brain's potential Macmillan
Michael J. Gelb How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day Dell Publishing
Tony Buzan Speed Reading
Marion Field Improve Your Written English How to books
David Flanagan jQuery Pocket Reference O'Reilly
Scott Huler On the Grid Rodale Press
Kyle Simpson You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance O'Reilly Media
Marc Abrahams This Is Improbable Oneworld Publications
Ellen Lupton Thinking with Type, Second Revised and Expanded Edition Princeton Architectural Press
Edward Glaeser Triumph of the City Pan
Nicholas C. Zakas Understanding ECMAScript 6: The Definitive Guide for JavaScript Developers No Starch Press
Bill Hetzel The Complete Guide to Software Testing John Wiley & Sons
Leil Lowndes How to Feel Confident Harper Element
Dan Ariely Irrationally Yours Harper Perennial
Marko Papic Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future Wiley

(Unread or skimmed) AND (donated or sold)

Author Title Publisher Note
Tony Robbins Money Master the Game Simon & Schuster UK Skimmed, Donated
Tony Robbins Awaken The Giant Within Simon & Schuster UK Donated
Tom Chatfield 50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know Quercus Donated
Vladimir Poltoratskiy Trading Code Is Open, Book 2 Independently published Sold
Vladimir Poltoratskiy Trading Code Is Open, Book 3 Independently published Sold
Vladimir Poltoratskiy Trading Code Is Open, Book 4 Independently published Sold
Marc Gregoire Professional C++ (Fourth edition) Wrox For sale
Tom Standage The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine That Fooled the World Allen Lane Donated
Matt Stauffer Laravel - Up and Running O'Reilly Sold
Bob Volman Forex Price Action Scalping Light Tower Publishing Sold, Unread
GM Weinberg Understanding the Professional Programmer John Wiley & Sons Donated
Juho Tuomas Vepsäläinen, Jesús Rodríguez Rodríguez, Artem Sapegin, Pedr Browne, Tobias Koppers SurviveJS - Webpack: From apprentice to master 978-952-68688 Sold
Marc Wandschneider Learning Node.js Addison Wesley Sold
Hassan Djirdeh, Nate Murray, Ari Lerner Fullstack Vue: The Complete Guide to Vue.js CreateSpace Sold
Adobe Creative Team Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book Adobe Never arrived
Steve McConnell Software Project Survival Guide (Developer Best Practices) Microsoft Press Donated
Richard Reeves, John Knell The 80 Minute MBA Business Plus Donated
Erik T. Ray Learning XML O'Reilly Donated