I’ve always found books are an underrated way to learn something new. Great books contain years of hard-earned experiences compressed into what you can read in hours. However, you do need to give hours-long attention to them. This allows books to convey ideas that shorter-form content like Twitter, blogs, or even this newsletter can not do.

With the holidays coming up, I asked for book recommendations on Twitter:

Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz

What are the best books you've read as an engineering manager or software engineer this year? Books that taught you something new related to your job, provided inspiration, ideas.

December 13th 2021

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More than a hundred people replied with well over a hundred book recommendations. I’ve collected the most mentioned books in a list, along with a quote from a review that gives a taste of why people liked that particular book.

The book recommendations are split into genres:

• Engineering management

• Engineering leadership and organization design

• Software engineering careers

• Software engineering interviews

• Software engineering

• Software engineering: specific domains or technologies

• Product and strategy

• Leadership and business

Browse all 95 book recommendations

Happy reading!