50 Books and 10,000 Articles that Helped Shape Me as a Software Developer and as a Person

One of the top 10 questions that I receive during a conversation with someone new is “What do you read?” Although I can’t list out every single thing I’ve read, I can provide a list of articles and books that I’ve completed (I’ve kept a comprehensive list). I don’t know how many thousands of articles I’ve started reading and did not complete, or how many books I’ve partially read, extracting only the relevant information out of them, but I do know how many books I’ve completed and the number of articles I’ve read since November, 2014. As of this writing, I’ve read 10,459 articles and 53 books.

Each time I finish reading a book, I will update this article (Last Update: 02/12/2023).

Background

How do I know how many articles I’ve read? It’s actually quite simple…now. But the history was rough, to say the least. Six years ago (2014), I noticed that my anxiety was through the roof. I just had a child, and everything that I knew, or thought that I knew, was flipped upside down (even though he was planned). As prepared as you think you are, you aren’t. Your life is now devoted to that child (and you’ll love every second of it).

My mind was always abused by the amount of reading I was pumping out each day. For example, I started my programming career by sitting down 6–8 hours each day and reading books until I finally got it (this was 2009 and YouTube didn’t have the kind of content it…