Reading List

The femgineers are avid readers with eclectic tastes who enjoy fiction while vacationing and traveling, non-fiction while eating a meal, and technical books in the evenings and on quiet weekends.

Here are some of their recommended reads:

Current Reading List

Queued Up

Fun

Business/Entrepreneurship/Career

  • The Mesh – Lisa Gansky
  • Good Boss, Bad Boss – Robert I. Sutton
  • Street Smarts – Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham
  • Word of Mouth Marketing – Andy Sernovitz
  • Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  • Making Ideas Happen – Scott Belsky
  • Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh
  • Mastering the VC Game – Jeffrey Bussgang
  • The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company – Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel
  • Great Demo! – Peter E. Cohen
  • Brand Sense – Martin Lindstrom
  • The Secret – Ken Blanchard & Mike Miller
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton M. Christensen
  • Made to Stick – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
  • Never Eat Alone – Keith Ferrazzi
  • Positioning – Al Ries & Jack Trout
  • Basic Black – Cathie Black
  • Secrets of Six Figure Women – Barbara Stanny
  • Getting to Yes – Roger Fisher & William Ury
  • Getting Things Done – David Allen

Programming/Design:

  • Design for Hackers – David Kadavy
  • Smart & Gets Things Done – Joel Spolsky
  • Agile Development with Rails – Samy Ruby & Dave Thomas
  • Mental Models – Indi Young
  • Building Social Web Applications
  • Clean Code – Robert C. Martin
  • Rockstar Programmers – Ed Burns
  • Test Driven Development – Thomas Hammell & Tom Snyder
  • The Laws of Simplicity – John Maeda
  • Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman

Blogs

  • Brain Pickings
  • Chris Guillebeau 
  • David Hauser
  • Lyndi Thompson
  • Noah Kagan
  • Ollie’s
  • the Paris Review 
  • Positively Present
  • Poor Girl Eats Well
  • Women 2.0

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