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Product design, customer focus and usability

• "About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design" by Alan Cooper
• "The Art of Innovation : Lessons in Creativity from IDEO" by Tom Kelley
• "Bringing Design to Software" by Terry Winograd
• "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman
• "Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things" by Donald A. Norman
• "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum : Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity" by Alan Cooper
• "Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction" by Jennifer Preece et al
• "Microsoft Windows User Experience" by The Windows User Experience Team
• "The Psychology of Everyday Things" by Donald A. Norman
• "Usability Engineering" by Jakob Neilsen

Software development

• "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell
• "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering" by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~maratb/readings/NoSilverBullet.html
• "No Silver Bullet Revisted", American Programmer Journal, November 1995, Brad Cox http://www.virtualschool.edu/cox/AmProTTEF.html
• "Rapid Development" by Steve McConnell
• "Writing Secure Code" by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc
• "Writing Solid Code" by Steve Maguire

Teamwork, group dynamics, etc.

• "Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents" by Lynne C. Levesque
• "Constantine on Peopleware" by Larry Constantine
• "Dynamics of Software Development" by McCarthy
• "Getting Ready to Negotiate" by Roger Fisher & Danny Ertel
• "Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers" by J. Hank Rainwater
• "How To Win Friends And Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
• "The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks
• "Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams" by Tom Demarco
• "Type Talk at Work : How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job" by Janet M. Thuesen
• "Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing" by Margolis & Fisher.
• "Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development" by Sharp

Topics specific to Development tools

• "Design Patterns" by Erich Gamma et al
• "Designing Object-Oriented Software" by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock et al
• "Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change" by Kent Beck
• "Lean Software Development" by Poppendieck
• "Object Oriented Analysis & Design" – Booch
• "Object Oriented Software Construction" – Meyer
• "The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master" by Andrew Hunt
• "The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition" by Gerald M. Weinberg
• "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" by Martin Fowler
• "Test-Driven Development" by Kent Beck – the bible of test-driven development

Topics specific to Microsoft products and technologies

• "ASP.NET Unleashed, Second Edition" by Stephen Walther
• "The C# Programming Language" by Anders Hejlsberg et al
• "Programming Windows with C#" by Charles Petzold
• "Windows Forms Programming in C#" by Chris Sells
• "Windows Forms Programming with C#" by Erik Brown

More general topics — Business and strategy

• "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey Moore
• "Execution" by Larry Bossidy

More general topics — Career development and work/life balance

• "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
• "The Circle of Innovation" by Tom Peters
• "The Seasons of a Man’s Life" by Daniel J. Levinson

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