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I believe people would just write the name of the really popular books like TAOCP, Hackers, Founders at work etc rather than linking to them.

The list:

  "The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think" by Matthew Yglesias
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  
  "The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win" by Steven Gary Blank
  Publisher: Cafepress.com
  
  "Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition" by Thomas H. Cormen
  Publisher: The MIT Press
  
  "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition" by Robert B. Cialdini
  Publisher: Harper Business
  
  "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams   (Second Edition)" by Visit Amazon's Tom DeMarco Page
  Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated
  
  "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold
  Publisher: Microsoft Press
  
  "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers
  Publisher: Prentice Hall
  
  "Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent" by Harvey Silverglate
  Publisher: Encounter Books
  
  "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford
  Publisher: O'Reilly Media
  
  "The Little Schemer - 4th Edition" by Daniel P. Friedman
  Publisher: The MIT Press
  
  "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It" by Michael E. Gerber
  Publisher: HarperCollins
  
  "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by David D. Burns
  Publisher: Harper
  
  "Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications" by Toby Segaran
  Publisher: O'Reilly Media
  
  "The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)" by Robin Williams
  Publisher: Peachpit Press
  
  "The C Programming Language" by Brian W. Kernighan
  Publisher: Prentice Hall
  
  "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald A. Norman
  Publisher: Basic Books
  
  "Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions" by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
  Publisher: CareerCup
  
  "What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought" by Keith E. Stanovich
  Publisher: Yale University Press
  
  "On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction" by William Zinsser
  Publisher: Harper Perennial
  
  "Darwin's Theorem" by TJ Radcliffe
  Publisher: Siduri Press
  
  "Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)" by Liping Ma
  Publisher: Routledge
  
  "Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition" by Steve Krug
  Publisher: New Riders
  
  "Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets" by Peter van der Linden
  Publisher: Prentice Hall
  
  "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" by Robert C. Martin
  Publisher: Prentice Hall
  
  "The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles" by Noam Nisan
  Publisher: The MIT Press
  
  "Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition" by Steve McConnell
  Publisher: Microsoft Press
  
  "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" by Marc Levinson
  Publisher: Princeton University Press
  
  "Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)" by Steve McConnell
  Publisher: Microsoft Press
  
  "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" by Martin Fowler
  Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
  
  "Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty" by David Kadavy
  Publisher: Wiley



Yeah -- I'd be willing to bet that "How To Win Friends and Influence People" is the most mentioned book here; maybe people just don't link to it.


Thanks for posting the list. The chart in the article makes it impossible to tell what the books are without hovering over each one to see the captions.


Or using their ISBN...

SICP gets mentioned a lot too.




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