If you are a developer these are must read books to help you find yourself, these books are not 100% related to development but can help you with thinking and productivity
One of the best books to organize your projects and ideas to save time
Scrum: Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Heavy read but it forces you to sort your own life before you try to fix everything else. Good reset when you are burnt out on code.
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Book that helped me return to
Atomic Habits: Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
The book that changed how I name variables and split functions. Read it once early, then again after a year of real projects.
Clean Code: Agile Software Craftsmanship
The one I actually worked through before interviews. Do the problems on paper, not in an IDE.
Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Questions
Less about code, more about saying no, estimating honestly and behaving like a professional. Wish I read it sooner.
The Clean Coder: Conduct for Professional Programmers
Fowler shows you how to clean an ugly codebase step by step without breaking it. Great reference to keep on the desk.
Refactoring: Improving Design of Existing Code
Closest thing to a career manual for developers. Short chapters, easy to read a few at a time.
The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Ed.
Written in 1975 and still explains why adding people to a late project makes it later. Nothing about teams has changed.
The Mythical Man-Month
The book that made databases click for me. Read it before you design anything that has to scale.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Huge book, but you do not read it front to back. Treat it as the reference you open when you are stuck on how to structure something.
Code Complete 2
Made me stop context switching. The chapter on shallow work alone is worth the price.
Deep Work
A novel about IT operations that reads like a thriller. Best way to understand DevOps.
The Phoenix Project
Algorithms explained with drawings instead of proofs. The book I wish I had when I started.
Grokking Algorithms
Covers the parts of the job nobody teaches: career, money, habits, dealing with people.
