My Bookshelf

A curated collection of must-read books for those passionate about design, UX, leadership, and innovation.

Leadership & Innovation

Rework

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Beyond the Obvious

Here Comes Everybody

The Talent Code

The Third Wave

Tools of Titans

First, Break All the Rules

The Doodle Revolution

Crucial Conversations

Multipliers

How Will You Measure Your Life?

The Back of the Napkin

Lean Enterprise

The Making of a Manager

Measure What Matters

Product Design

Design Systems

Design Sprint

Design Think Make Break Repeat

Product Design

Modular Web Design

Vision in Design

Sprint

Lean UX

User Experience & Usability

The Elements of User Experience

Don't Make Me Think

Web Form Design

Designing Interactions

Measuring the User Experience

Designing the Obvious

Designing Web Usability

Mapping Experiences

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

The Master Algorithm

Programming Collective Intelligence

Hands-On Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Machine Learning

Superintelligence

Fundamentals of Machine Learning

Design

Universal Principles of Design

The Design of Everyday Things

Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design

Making and Breaking the Grid

Information is Beautiful

79 Short Essays on Design

Designing with Type

The Anatomy of Type

Thinking with Type

Typology: Type Design from Victorian to Digital

The Complete Manual of Typography

The Elements of Typographic Style

Grid Systems in Graphic Design

Big Data & Data Visualization

Data Visualization

Envisioning Information

Visual Explanations

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Presentations & Storytelling

Confessions of a Public Speaker

Presentation Zen

The Art of Public Speaking

TED Talks: The Official Guide to Public Speaking

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

Storytelling with Data

Slide:ology

Neuroscience & Psychology

The Power of Habit

Algorithms to Live By

Man's Search for Meaning

The Tipping Point

The Upside of Irrationality

The Signal and the Noise

How to Create a Mind

Interviewing Users

Getting to Yes

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Never Split the Difference

Information Architecture & Information Design

Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond

Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories

Web & App Development

Eric Meyer on CSS

Designing with Web Standards

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

Mastering Regular Expressions

Using Joomla!

The Art of Agile Development

Scrum: Novice to Ninja

Shakespeare

Will in the World

Soul of the Age

Shakespeare's Words

1599: A Year in the Life of Shakespeare

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power

Great Shakespearean Actors

Shakespeare in the Digital World

Shakespeare on Stage

Best of the Bard: Shakespeare’s 20 Greatest Plays

Shakespeare’s First Folio: The Ultimate Transcription

San Francisco

San Francisco: A Portrait of a City 1940-1960

The Magnificent Rogues of San Francisco

Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in San Francisco

Theatres of San Francisco

Lost San Francisco

Magic

Tarbell Course in Magic

Modern Coin Magic (Bobo)

Coin Magic (Richard Kaufman)

Royal Road to Card Magic

Expert at the Card Table

The Art of Astonishment

Now You See It, Now You Don't

Essential Dai Vernon

The Topit Book 2

Magic Theory

The Fitzkee Trilogy

Maximum Entertainment 2.0

How Magicians Think

Magic and Showmanship

Strong Magic

Cards as Weapons (Ricky Jay)