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Best Practices Books
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,141 ratings — published 1999
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,487 ratings — published 1993
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,114 ratings — published 2017
Effective Java (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.51 — 8,073 ratings — published 2001
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,490 ratings — published 2007
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.00 — 168,282 ratings — published 2001
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,274 ratings — published 2011
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,680 ratings — published 2004
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,965 ratings — published 2020
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,955 ratings — published 1994
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,822 ratings — published 2003
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,545 ratings — published 2018
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.09 — 176,861 ratings — published 2006
Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,498 ratings — published 2009
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,851 ratings — published 1999
The Art And Science Of Teaching: A Comprehensive Framework For Effective Instruction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 3.71 — 920 ratings — published 2007
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,951 ratings — published 2000
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 825,541 ratings — published 1989
The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.05 — 35,291 ratings — published 1997
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,925 ratings — published 1987
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,257 ratings — published 2007
JavaScript: The Good Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,666 ratings — published 2008
Designing With Web Standards (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,097 ratings — published 2003
High Performance Web Sites (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.15 — 687 ratings — published 2007
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,319 ratings — published 2002
Ruby Best Practices: Increase Your Productivity - Write Better Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as best-practices)
avg rating 3.85 — 170 ratings — published 2009
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 3.85 — 284 ratings — published
Good Morning, Miss Dove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 3.93 — 499 ratings — published 1947
How to Raise a Reader (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,232 ratings — published 2019
90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor's Nuclear Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published
Old School Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,970 ratings — published 2025
The New Year's Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #11)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,598 ratings — published 2007
The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,848 ratings — published 2024
On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,281 ratings — published 2025
The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 3.75 — 713,623 ratings — published 2022
The Tortoise's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,204 ratings — published 2025
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,362 ratings — published 1996
The Eights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,822 ratings — published 2025
In the Time of Five Pumpkins (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #26)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,321 ratings — published
The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #30)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 4.12 — 109,755 ratings — published 2017
The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,654 ratings — published 2025
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 3.66 — 942 ratings — published 2025
Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,207 ratings — published 2023
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,009 ratings — published 1974
Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 4,232 ratings — published 2011
The Missing README: A Guide for the New Software Engineer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 427 ratings — published
InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 4.19 — 63 ratings — published 2010
Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 2,300 ratings — published
Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as best-practices)
avg rating 4.04 — 471 ratings — published 2023
Walk of Ages: A Generational Journey from Mt. Whitney to Death Valley (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published
“best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea.
And this is the age of the idea”
― Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
And this is the age of the idea”
― Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
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