It's been nine months since I created the Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever, with the best books ever released. I still refer to it when I want to pick up a timeless classic.
But last week I suddenly had the desire to know what the new best software development books are. And I couldn't find any such list. So, of course, I made it myself.
In this post I proudly present the Top 50 New Software Development Books, where new means "less than two years old". This list was created using a weighed mix of the following criteria:
- Number of ratings on Amazon.com
- Average rating on Amazon.com
- Number of ratings on GoodReads.com
- Averate rating on GoodReads.com
Note: The time that has passed since a book's release date waspart of the calculation. For example: A book that got three 5-starratings in just four months is listed higher than a book that got thesame ratings in a much longer period of time.
Some other things worth pointing out:
- Like in the previous edition, I ignored all technology-specifictitles. Only books about generic software engineering topics wereallowed on the list.
- I discarded all re-releases of books that had earlier editions before 2007. The only exception is Making Things Happen, because Scott Berkun changed the title of his book. And because he's a nice bloke who granted an interview with me.
- Thomas Erl is on this list three times (#6, #17, #24). He didn't pay me for that, unfortunately. He just did it all by himself.
- Three books released in 2009 were already able to get listed here, which is quite an achievement: Agile Testing (#28), 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know (#33), and Scrumban (#49).
- There are 22 books from 2007 on this list, 25 books from 2008, and 3 from 2009.
- While making this list I drank 8 cups of coffee, and consumed a full bag of Belgian chocolates.
- This must be the first list of mine where Steve McConnell is not listed.
I hope you will enjoy the results...
| |
Title / Author(s) |
Release
|
| 1 |
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
Scott Rosenberg |
26-1-2007 |
| 2 |
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin |
11-8-2008 |
| 3 |
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
Andy Hunt |
15-8-2008 |
| 4 |
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
Michael Lopp |
12-6-2007 |
| 5 |
Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
Andy Oram, Greg Wilson |
26-6-2007 |
| 6 |
SOA Principles of Service Design
Thomas Erl |
28-7-2007 |
| 7 |
The Productive Programmer
Neal Ford |
3-7-2008 |
| 8 |
Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent
Joel Spolsky |
31-5-2007 |
| 9 |
Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management
Scott Berkun |
25-3-2008 |
| 10 |
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
Michael Nygard |
30-3-2007 |
| 11 |
The Art of Agile Development
James Shore, Shane Warden |
26-10-2007 |
| 12 |
Service-Oriented Modeling: Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture
Michael Bell |
25-2-2008 |
| 13 |
Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises
Dean Leffingwell |
8-3-2007 |
| 14 |
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
Charles Petzold |
16-6-2008 |
| 15 |
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
Bill Buxton |
11-4-2007 |
| 16 |
Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk
Paul Duvall, Steve Matyas, Andrew Glover |
9-7-2007 |
| 17 |
SOA Design Patterns
Thomas Erl |
23-10-2008 |
| 18 |
The Developer's Guide to Debugging
Thorsten Grötker, Ulrich Holtmann, Holger Keding, Markus Wloka |
11-8-2008 |
| 19 |
Agile Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success
Amr Elssamadisy |
7-7-2008 |
| 20 |
Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
Johanna Rothman |
7-6-2007 |
| 21 |
The Principles of Project Management
Meri Williams |
13-3-2008 |
| 22 |
Introduction to Information Retrieval
Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze |
7-7-2008 |
| 23 |
Head First Software Development
Dan Pilone, Russ Miles |
11-1-2007 |
| 24 |
Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA
Thomas Erl, Anish Karmarkar, Priscilla Walmsley |
21-9-2008 |
| 25 |
The Art of Multiprocessor Programming
Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit |
29-2-2008 |
| 26 |
Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum
Craig Larman, Bas Vodde |
22-12-2008 |
| 27 |
SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design
Nicolai M. Josuttis |
24-8-2007 |
| 28 |
Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory |
5-1-2009 |
| 29 |
The Business Analyst's Handbook
Howard Podeswa |
4-11-2008 |
| 30 |
Scrum and XP from the Trenches
Henrik Kniberg |
4-10-2007 |
| 31 |
xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code
Gerard Meszaros |
31-5-2007 |
| 32 |
Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies
Michael Rosen, Boris Lublinsky, Kevin T. Smith, Marc J. Balcer |
13-6-2008 |
| 33 |
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Richard Monson-Haefel |
13-2-2009 |
| 34 |
Perfect Software: And Other Illusions about Testing
Gerald M. Weinberg |
29-8-2008 |
| 35 |
Expert Product Management: Advanced Techniques, Tips and Strategies for Product Management & Product Marketing
Brian Lawley |
10-10-2007 |
| 36 |
The Enterprise and Scrum
Ken Schwaber |
13-6-2007 |
| 37 |
Algorithms in a Nutshell
George Heineman, Gary Pollice, Stanley Selkow |
1-11-2008 |
| 38 |
The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility
Michele Sliger, Stacia Broderick |
29-5-2008 |
| 39 |
Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions
Bill Scott, Theresa Neil |
15-1-2008 |
| 40 |
If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire?
Lisa K. Simone |
23-3-2007 |
| 41 |
Puzzles for Programmers and Pros
Dennis Shasha |
7-5-2007 |
| 42 |
Managing the Test People
Judy McKay |
27-4-2007 |
| 43 |
Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools
Karl E. Wiegers |
8-8-2007 |
| 44 |
Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises
Roger Sessions |
19-5-2008 |
| 45 |
How We Test Software at Microsoft
Alan Page, Ken Johnston, Bj Rollison |
16-8-2008 |
| 46 |
The One Page Project Manager for IT Projects
Clark A. Campbell |
4-8-2008 |
| 47 |
The Art of Lean Software Development: A Practical and Incremental Approach
Curt Hibbs, Steve Jewett, Mike Sullivan |
15-12-2008 |
| 48 |
Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software
Patrick Cauldwell |
5-5-2008 |
| 49 |
Scrumban - Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development
Corey Ladas |
12-1-2009 |
| 50 |
Software Requirement Patterns
Stephen Withall |
13-6-2007 |
The book Getting Results from Software Development Teams from Lawrence J. Peters (8-6-2008) would have been #51. But alas, I have to stop somewhere...
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