Non-fiction Book Recommendations

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Life

Bumpers, by Nic Peterson

As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen

The Daily Stoic, by Ryan Holiday

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls into Adulthood, by Lisa Damour

The Fine Art of Small Talk, by Debra Fine

Personal Kanban, by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria

Why We Buy, by Paco Underhill

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo

The Reason I Jump, by Naoki Higashida

The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig

Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom


Work

The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande

Meetings Suck, by Cameron Herold

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni

The Phoenix Project, by Kim, Behr, and Spafford


Technical

Old Coder Guy, by Eric Whitney

Pragmatic Programmer, by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt

NoSQL for Mere Mortals, by Dan Sullivan

Pro SQL Server Database Design and Implementation, by Louis Davidson and Jessica Moss

The Kimball Group Reader (data warehousing), by Ralph Kimball and others

Design Patterns, by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides

Release It!, by Michael Nygard

Clean Code, by Robert C. Martin

SQL Cookbook, by Anthony Molinaro

T-SQL Fundamentals, by Itzik Ben-Gan


History

Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond

How the Irish Saved Civilization, by Thomas Cahill

Brief History of Time/Universe in a Nutshell, by Stephen Hawking

The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell


Exercise/Health

If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay, by Lara Zibners

The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40, by Jonathon Sullivan and Andy Baker

Fat Loss Happens on Monday, by Josh Hillis and Dan John

Easy Strength Omnibook, by Dan John

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