What are your must-read tech books for 2018?
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Published: 2017-12-19 13:17:32

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Hey there! 


Though New Year’s resolutions have never played an important role in my life, I am now taking this occasion of a new year to purposely resolve to read more books. I already love reading, but the goal for 2018 is to read a new book every week. As I am interested in too many disciplines to focus on one specific area, I need a wild mix of recommendations. 


That's why I'd like to hear from you 

**what are your must-read books about the tech industry (in general), computer science, programming, web dev, software engineering, digital culture and so forth?** 


Feel free to post anything that is in any way related to tech, computer, software, and algorithms *.....* Technical and non-technical. 
 

I'll publish a curated list afterwards, if you'd like. I too browsed through the different book related posts here on dev.to (like [programming books](https://dev.to/ben/what-are-your-must-read-programming-books), [software books](https://dev.to/ben/what-are-the-most-interesting-readable-software-books) and [technology related books](https://dev.to/mattwarren/best-technology-related-non-fiction-books-54n)), which I will include in my miscellany of recommended books.


So far the list includes the following top-2018-books that were recommended by  twitter fellows and techie-friends (if any of you is interested):


**Software & Web Dev**

- **Progressive Web Apps**
by *Dean Alan Hume*

- **Camel in Action**
by *by Claus Ibsen & Jonathan Anstey*

- **Programming Pearls**
by *Jon Bentley*

- **Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions**
by *Gayle Laakmann McDowell*


**Math**

- **A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)**
by *Barbara Oakley*



**Tech Industry und The Digital & Information Age in General**

- **Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley money machine**
by *Antonio García Martínez (previously Facebook and Twitter advisor)*

- **Weapons of Math Destruction**
by *Cathy O'Neil*

- **Pax Technica**
by *Philip N. Howard*

- **The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created The Digital Revolution** 
by *Walter Isaacson*

- **This Machine Kills Secrets** 
by *Andy Greenberg*

- **The Open Organisation**
by *Jim Whitehurst (Red Hat CEO)*

- **Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies**
by *Nick Bostrom*

- **The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains**
by *Nicholas Carr*

- **The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires**
by *Tim Wu*



**Data**

- **We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves**
by *John Cheney-Lippold*

- **Being Digital Citizens**
by *Engin Isin & Evelyn Ruppert*



**Management and Leadership**

- **Brave Leadership** 
by *Kimberly Davis*

- **The Greatest Gift** 
by *Victor Antonio*

- **High Performance Habits**
by *Brendon Burchard*

- **Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams**
by *by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister*



**Other**

- **Event Driven: How to Run Memorable Tech Conferences**
by *Leah Silber*

- **Robot-Proof - Higher Education in the age of Artificial Intelligence** 
by *Joseph Aoun*



Reading a book every week is a lot easier than you think. [This](https://journal.thriveglobal.com/you-can-read-a-book-every-week-its-a-lot-easier-than-you-think-339b4cab0ec) is a very cool write-up, in case you're interested.😊