What to Read After Beautiful Code
Readers who loved Beautiful Code by Andy Oram keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Beautiful Code 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 Beautiful Code
Coders at work
Code Complete
The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Programming Pearls
Hackers & painters
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Masterminds of programming
Joel on Software
Purely functional data structures
Code
Rapid development
Refactoring to Patterns (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Hacker's delight
xUnit Test Patterns
Domain-specific languages
The design of design
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
Programmers at work
Beautiful architecture
The Architecture of Open Source Applications
The algorithm design manual
Elements of programming