My Top Recommended Books

Design & Typography

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited - Steve Krug
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People - Susan M. Weinschenk
Laws of UX - Jon Yablonski
Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories - Donna Spencer
Understanding Privacy - Matthew Crain
How to Make Sense of Any Mess - Abby Covert

Clean Architecture - Robert C. Martin
Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - Erich Gamma et al.
Head First Design Patterns - Eric Freeman & Elisabeth Robson
SQL Antipatterns - Bill Karwin
The Bible of Algorithms & Data Structures - Florian Dedov
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations - Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track - Will Larson

Data Sketches - Nadieh Bremer & Shirley Wu
Design is Storytelling - Ellen Lupton
How Charts Lie - Alberto Cairo
The Big Book of Dashboards - Steve Wexler, Jeffrey Shaffer & Andy Cotgreave
Joyful Infographics - Nigel Holmes
Designing Interfaces - Jenifer Tidwell, Charles Brewer & Aynne Valencia