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The bookshelf
The books that tell software’s story best: memoirs, histories, and postmortems, each summarized so you know whether it belongs on your own shelf.
- The Soul of a New MachineA year inside a Data General team racing to build a new computer, and the book that made engineers into characters.
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer RevolutionThree generations of programmers and tinkerers, from MIT's model railroad club to the first home-computer game makers.
- The Cuckoo's EggA true story that begins with a 75-cent accounting error and ends with the hunt for a spy inside the early internet.
- Accidental EmpiresA gossipy, opinionated tour of how the personal computer business was built, by the industry columnist who watched it happen.
- Showstopper!The inside story of Microsoft's race to build Windows NT, and what that pace did to the people on the team.
- Where Wizards Stay Up LateThe standard narrative of how the ARPANET was built, from the first idea to the network that became the internet.
- Dealers of LightningThe story of Xerox PARC, the lab that invented much of what a modern computer is, and the company that let it walk away.
- The Cathedral and the BazaarThe essay that explained, to a generation of developers and managers, why open-source software development works.
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and SoftwareA patient, ground-up explanation of how a computer works, starting from flashlights and Morse code.
- Masters of DoomThe story of John Carmack and John Romero, id Software, and how two programmers turned Doom into a cultural force.
- Dreaming in CodeA reporter follows one ambitious software project through years of delay to show why software is so hard to finish.
- ReworkA set of short, blunt essays on running a small software company, from the people behind Basecamp and Ruby on Rails.
- The InnovatorsA sweeping history of the digital revolution, from Ada Lovelace's notes to Google, built on the argument that teams did the inventing.
- Things a Little Bird Told MeA co-founder's short, personal essays on creativity, risk, and how Twitter grew from a side project.
- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at WorkThe authors of Rework on running a calm software company: sane hours, small ambitions, and no hustle for its own sake.