Practical Career & Growth Books
Intent 136 books
136 hands-on Career & Growth books you can apply directly to your work. Ranked by developer recommendations — top picks include Deep Work and Atomic Habits.
Rankings
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Deep Work
Cal Newport
7549 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
130.7
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Atomic Habits
James Clear
390 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
91.5
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The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
Robert C. Martin
391 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
88.3
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Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual
John Sonmez
300 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
71
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The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
281 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
66.8
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The Manager's Path
Camille Fournier
221 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
55.8
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
250 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
54.5
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
170 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
42.5
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The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
180 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
41
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Start with Why
Simon Sinek
140 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
35
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So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
120 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
28
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Managing Humans
Michael Lopp
110 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
27.5
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Getting Things Done
David Allen
120 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
26
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The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
100 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
25
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On Writing Well
William Zinsser
150 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
23.5
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The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick
103 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
23.4
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Your First Year in Code
Isaac Lyman
130 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
22.5
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Influence
Robert B. Cialdini
81 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
20.8
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The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
90 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
20.5
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Eat That Frog!
Brian Tracy
90 in 90d
career-and-growthbackend
20.5
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