What to Read After The Mythical Man-Month
Readers who loved The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Mythical Man-Month is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Mythical Man-Month
Peopleware
Hackers & painters
Coders at work
Code Complete
Joel on Software
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Design Patterns
Programming Pearls
Pragmatic Programmer
The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Test Driven Development
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)
Domain-Driven Design
Rapid development
Death March, Second Edition
Psychology of Computer Programming
Facts and fallacies of software engineering
JavaScript
The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Effective Java
Clean Coder
Mastering Regular Expressions
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
The passionate programmer