This is my TBR (To Be Read) list. Most of these were recommended to me from people I know, or mentioned in other books I have read.

Technical/Engineering

  • Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
    • Matthew Skelton
    • #engineering, #technology, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
    • Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
    • #engineering, #technology, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Driving Technical Change: Why People On Your Team Don’t Act On Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should
    • Terrence Ryan
    • #engineering, #technology, #leadership, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility
    • Mark Schwartz
    • #engineering, #technology, #leadership, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect’s Role in the Digital Enterprise
    • Gregor Hohpe
    • #engineering, #technology, #architecture, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
    • Nicole Forsgren
    • #engineering, #technology, #devops, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems
    • Marianne Bellotti
    • #engineering, #technology, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • The Art Of Business Value
    • Mark Schwartz
    • #engineering, #business, #technology, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
    • Sam Newman
    • #engineering, #architecture, #technology, #non-fiction, #audiobook
    • Technical architecture that bridges engineering and management
  • Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy
    • Eben Hewitt
    • #technology, #strategy, #architecture, #engineering, #audiobook
    • Technical strategy like your highly-rated technical leadership books
  • Ahead in the Cloud: Best Practices for Navigating the Future of Enterprise IT
    • Stephen Orban
    • #technology, #cloud, #enterprise, #non-fiction, #audiobook

Leadership/Management

  • Dare to Lead
    • Brené Brown
    • #leadership, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    • Stephen R. Covey
    • #leadership, #self-help, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • 1% Leadership: Master the Small, Daily Improvements that Set Great Leaders Apart
    • Andy Ellis
    • #leadership, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual
    • Jocko Willink
    • #leadership, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses Into Results
    • Cy Wakeman
    • #leadership, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
    • Kerry Patterson
    • #leadership, #communication, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
    • Michael Bungay Stanier
    • #leadership, #coaching, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization
    • John Wooden
    • #leadership, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Leadership: In Turbulent Times
    • Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • #leadership, #history, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
    • Simon Sinek
    • #leadership, #management, #culture, #audiobook
  • The Infinite Game
    • Simon Sinek
    • #leadership, #business, #philosophy, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Armstrong on Reinventing Performance Management: Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement
    • Michael Armstrong
    • #management, #performance, #culture, #non-fiction
  • Manager as Negotiator
    • David A. Lax
    • #management, #negotiation, #leadership, #non-fiction
  • Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
    • Kim Malone Scott
    • #leadership, #management, #culture, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Leading From Anywhere: The Essential Guide to Managing Remote Teams
    • David Burkus
    • #leadership, #management, #remote-work, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
    • Robert Iger, Joel Lovell
    • #leadership, #business, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable
    • Patrick Lencioni
    • #leadership, #business-fable, #management, #audiobook
    • Another business fable by your favorite 5-star author
  • Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors
    • Patrick Lencioni
    • #leadership, #business-fable, #culture, #audiobook
    • Leadership fable format you consistently rate 5-star
  • The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
    • Michael Watkins
    • #leadership, #management, #career, #audiobook
    • Leadership transition book, management focus like your 4-star books
  • Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
    • Liz Wiseman
    • #leadership, #management, #culture, #audiobook
    • Leadership effectiveness, similar to your management books
  • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
    • General Stanley McChrystal
    • #leadership, #military, #management, #audiobook
    • Military leadership applied to business (like Jocko books you rated highly)
  • The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
    • Chris McChesney
    • #leadership, #execution, #business, #non-fiction
  • Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership
    • Bill Torbert
    • #leadership, #transformation, #management, #non-fiction
  • Don’t Hire Anyone Without Me!: A revolutionary approach to interviewing and hiring the best
    • Carol Quinn
    • #leadership, #hiring, #hr, #non-fiction
  • Ego Free Leadership: Ending the Unconscious Habits That Hijack Your Business
    • Brandon Black
    • #leadership, #self-awareness, #management, #non-fiction
  • Entreleadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
    • Dave Ramsey
    • #leadership, #business, #entrepreneurship, #non-fiction
  • First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
    • Marcus Buckingham
    • #leadership, #management, #hr, #non-fiction
  • Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership
    • John C. Maxwell
    • #leadership, #questioning, #management, #non-fiction
  • Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace
    • John C. Maxwell
    • #leadership, #change, #transformation, #non-fiction
  • Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
    • The Arbinger Institute
    • #leadership, #self-awareness, #psychology, #non-fiction
  • Leading Change
    • John P. Kotter
    • #leadership, #change-management, #transformation, #non-fiction
  • Meetings Suck: Turning One of The Most Loathed Elements of Business into One of the Most Valuable
    • Cameron Herold
    • #leadership, #meetings, #productivity, #non-fiction
  • Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
    • David Rock
    • #leadership, #performance, #coaching, #non-fiction
  • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
    • Chip Heath
    • #leadership, #change, #psychology, #non-fiction
  • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
    • John C Maxwell
    • #leadership, #principles, #management, #non-fiction
  • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
    • Peter F. Drucker
    • #leadership, #management, #productivity, #non-fiction
  • The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All
    • Michael Useem
    • #leadership, #case-studies, #management, #non-fiction
  • The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
    • Oren Harari
    • #leadership, #military, #biography, #non-fiction
  • The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership
    • BURNISON
    • #leadership, #principles, #management, #non-fiction
  • The Vision Driven Leader: 10 Questions to Focus Your Efforts, Energize Your Team, and Scale Your Business
    • Michael Hyatt
    • #leadership, #vision, #strategy, #non-fiction
  • Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Bully Pulpit
    • James Strock
    • #leadership, #history, #biography, #non-fiction
  • Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life
    • Stewart D. Friedman
    • #leadership, #work-life-balance, #management, #non-fiction
  • Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
    • Seth Godin
    • #leadership, #community, #influence, #non-fiction
  • Virtuous Leadership
    • Alexandre Havard
    • #leadership, #virtue, #ethics, #non-fiction
  • We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
    • Celia Sandys
    • #leadership, #biography, #history, #non-fiction
  • John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do
    • John P. Kotter
    • #leadership, #management, #change, #non-fiction
  • Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus
    • Michael Roberto
    • #leadership, #decision-making, #conflict, #non-fiction
  • Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication
    • Andy Stanley
    • #leadership, #communication, #speaking, #non-fiction
  • Conversational Capacity: The Secret to Building Successful Teams That Perform When the Pressure Is On
    • Craig Weber
    • #leadership, #communication, #teamwork, #non-fiction
  • Emotional Intelligence 2.0
    • Travis Bradberry
    • #leadership, #emotional-intelligence, #self-awareness, #non-fiction
  • How to Work with Jerks: Getting Stuff Done with People You Can’t Stand
    • Eric L. Williamson
    • #leadership, #communication, #workplace, #non-fiction
  • Influence Redefined: Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday
    • Stacey Hanke
    • #leadership, #influence, #communication, #non-fiction
  • The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
    • The Arbinger Institute
    • #leadership, #conflict-resolution, #psychology, #non-fiction
  • The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
    • Daniel Coyle
    • #leadership, #culture, #teamwork, #non-fiction

Business/Entrepreneurship

  • The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
    • Erin Meyer
    • #business, #culture, #communication, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • The Lean Startup
    • Eric Ries
    • #entrepreneurship, #business, #startup, #audiobook
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
    • Clayton M. Christensen
    • #business, #innovation, #entrepreneurship, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
    • Robert B. Cialdini
    • #psychology, #persuasion, #business, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
    • Rob Fitzpatrick
    • #business, #entrepreneurship, #customer-development, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
    • Peter Thiel
    • #entrepreneurship, #business, #startup, #audiobook
  • The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
    • Josh Kaufman
    • #business, #entrepreneurship, #education, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • The 4-Hour Workweek
    • Timothy Ferriss
    • #business, #productivity, #entrepreneurship, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
    • Jim Collins
    • #business, #management, #strategy, #audiobook
  • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
    • Richard P. Rumelt
    • #business, #strategy, #management, #non-fiction
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
    • Malcolm Gladwell
    • #business, #psychology, #sociology, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • How To Win Friends and Influence People
    • Dale Carnegie
    • #business, #communication, #relationships, #audiobook
  • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
    • Chip Heath
    • #business, #communication, #marketing, #non-fiction
  • Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders, 2023
    • Warren Buffett
    • #finance, #investment, #business, #non-fiction
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
    • Ben Horowitz
    • #entrepreneurship, #business, #leadership, #non-fiction
  • Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less
    • Joseph McCormack
    • #business, #communication, #leadership, #non-fiction
  • Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork
    • Dan Sullivan
    • #business, #productivity, #leadership, #non-fiction
  • Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
    • Aaron Dignan
    • #business, #organizational-change, #innovation, #non-fiction
  • Business Made Simple: 60 Days to Master Leadership, Sales, Marketing, Execution, Management, Personal Productivity and More (Made Simple Series)
    • Donald Miller
    • #business, #entrepreneurship, #productivity, #non-fiction
  • Know What You’re FOR: A Growth Strategy for Work, An Even Better Strategy for Life
    • Jeff Henderson
    • #business, #strategy, #purpose, #non-fiction
  • Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track-And Keeping It There
    • Les McKeown
    • #business, #growth, #organizational-development, #non-fiction
  • Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine (Entrepreneurship Simplified)
    • Mike Michalowicz
    • #business, #finance, #entrepreneurship, #non-fiction
  • That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
    • Marc Randolph
    • #business, #entrepreneurship, #startup, #biography
  • The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
    • Patrick M. Lencioni
    • #business, #organizational-health, #leadership, #non-fiction
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
    • Malcolm Gladwell
    • #business, #psychology, #decision-making, #non-fiction
  • Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
    • Keith Ferrazzi
    • #business, #networking, #relationships, #non-fiction
  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
    • Richard H. Thaler
    • #business, #behavioral-economics, #decision-making, #non-fiction
  • Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
    • Malcolm Gladwell
    • #business, #psychology, #communication, #non-fiction
  • Building a StoryBrand 2.0: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
    • Donald Miller
    • #business, #marketing, #communication, #non-fiction
  • Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior
    • PATTERSON
    • #business, #accountability, #communication, #non-fiction
  • The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
    • Matthew Dixon
    • #business, #sales, #customer-development, #non-fiction
  • Great Demo!: How to Create and Execute Stunning Software Demonstrations
    • Peter Cohan
    • #business, #sales, #software, #non-fiction
  • Doing Discovery: The Single Most Important Element of Software Sales and Buyer Enablement Processes
    • Peter Cohan
    • #business, #sales, #customer-development, #non-fiction
  • The Trusted Advisor
    • David H. Maister
    • #business, #consulting, #relationships, #non-fiction
  • The Trusted Advisor Sales Engineer
    • John Care
    • #business, #sales, #technical-sales, #non-fiction
  • Mastering Technical Sales: The Sales Engineer’s Handbook
    • John Care
    • #business, #sales, #technical-sales, #non-fiction
  • The Six Habits of Highly Effective Sales Engineers
    • Chris White
    • #business, #sales, #technical-sales, #non-fiction

Aviation

  • Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
    • Ben R. Rich
    • #aviation, #military, #engineering, #audiobook
  • Freight Dog: The Dark Side of Aviation
    • Kimber C. Turner
    • #aviation, #non-fiction
  • The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane
    • Richard Quest
    • #aviation, #mystery, #non-fiction
  • Ferry Pilot: Nine Lives Over the North Atlantic.
    • Kerry McCauley
    • #aviation, #adventure, #non-fiction
  • Dangerous Flights: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
    • Kerry McCauley
    • #aviation, #adventure, #non-fiction
  • Mike Busch on Airplane Ownership (Volume 1): What every aircraft owner needs to know about selecting, purchasing, insuring, maintaining, troubleshooting, modifying, and flying light airplanes
    • Mike Busch
    • #aviation, #maintenance, #ownership, #non-fiction
  • Mike Busch on Airplane Ownership
    • Mike Busch
    • #aviation, #maintenance, #ownership, #non-fiction
  • The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World’s Most Mysterious Air Disasters
    • Christine Negroni
    • #aviation, #investigation, #safety, #audiobook

Security/Cybersecurity

  • CISO Desk Reference Guide Volume 2: A Practical Guide for CISOs
    • Bill Bonney, Gary Hayslip, Matt Stamper
    • #cybersecurity, #security, #leadership, #non-fiction
  • CISO Desk Reference Guide: A Practical Guide for CISOs
    • Bill Bonney, Gary Hayslip, Matt Stamper
    • #cybersecurity, #security, #leadership, #non-fiction
  • CISO Impact and Influence: How Cybersecurity Executives Can Take the Lead and Nudge the World
    • Chris Brown
    • #cybersecurity, #security, #leadership, #non-fiction
  • Why CISOs Fail: The Missing Link in Security Management–and How to Fix It
    • Barak Engel
    • #cybersecurity, #security, #leadership, #non-fiction
  • The Cyber Leadership Imperative: Powerful Strategies to Unlock Your Potential and Become an Exceptional Cybersecurity Executive
    • Phillimon Zongo, Darren Argyle, Jan Schreuder
    • #cybersecurity, #security, #leadership, #non-fiction

Product Management

  • Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
    • Marty Cagan
    • #product-management, #business, #leadership, #non-fiction
  • Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty
    • C. Todd Lombardo
    • #product-management, #business, #strategy, #non-fiction
  • Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
    • Richard Banfield
    • #product-management, #leadership, #business, #non-fiction
  • Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
    • Marty Cagan
    • #product-management, #business, #technology, #non-fiction
  • Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework
    • Mik Kersten
    • #product-management, #business, #transformation, #non-fiction
  • Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
    • Jonathan Smart
    • #product-management, #agile, #business, #non-fiction

Personal Development

  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
    • James Clear
    • #self-help, #productivity, #habits, #audiobook
  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
    • Adam M. Grant
    • #psychology, #self-help, #learning, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
    • David Allen
    • #productivity, #self-help, #organization, #audiobook
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow
    • Daniel Kahneman
    • #psychology, #decision-making, #behavioral-economics, #audiobook
  • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
    • Atul Gawande
    • #productivity, #systems, #process, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Thinking In Systems: A Primer
    • Donella H. Meadows
    • #systems-thinking, #complexity, #problem-solving, #non-fiction
  • The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
    • Eliyahu M. Goldratt
    • #process-improvement, #systems, #business, #non-fiction
  • Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
    • Beau Lotto
    • #psychology, #perception, #creativity, #non-fiction
  • Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
    • Jon Acuff
    • #productivity, #goal-setting, #self-help, #non-fiction
  • Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
    • Michael Hyatt
    • #personal-development, #goal-setting, #life-planning, #non-fiction
  • Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
    • Michael Hyatt
    • #productivity, #personal-development, #focus, #non-fiction
  • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
    • Tiago Forte
    • #productivity, #knowledge-management, #organization, #non-fiction
  • The Elements of Style
    • William Strunk Jr.
    • #writing, #communication, #reference, #classic
  • On Writing Well
    • William Zinsser
    • #writing, #communication, #craft, #non-fiction
  • Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
    • Nancy Duarte
    • #communication, #presentation, #storytelling, #non-fiction
  • slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations
    • Nancy Duarte
    • #communication, #presentation, #design, #non-fiction
  • Talk Like TED
    • Carmine Gallo
    • #communication, #presentation, #speaking, #non-fiction
  • The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
    • Carmine Gallo
    • #communication, #presentation, #speaking, #biography

Finance/Business Cases

  • Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
    • Andrew Ross Sorkin
    • #finance, #crisis, #economics, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
    • Michael Lewis
    • #finance, #economics, #crisis, #audiobook
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
    • Bethany McLean
    • #business, #finance, #scandal, #non-fiction, #audiobook
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    • John Carreyrou
    • #business, #startup, #scandal, #audiobook
  • Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business
    • Mark Robichaux
    • #business, #biography, #telecommunications, #non-fiction, #audiobook