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Most-mentioned books in r/ExperiencedDevs during 2020

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/ExperiencedDevs within the published source unit for 2020. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Books ranked
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Tracked mentions in 2020
Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions
Cover of Clean Code #1

Clean Code

Robert C. Martin

Robert Martin's case that unreadable functions are a discipline failure, not an inevitability, argued one renamed variable and one extracted method at a time.

17 in 2020
Cover of Cracking the Coding Interview #2

Cracking the Coding Interview

Gayle Laakmann McDowell

The book credited with inventing the modern coding interview, argued about like it's also on trial for it.

9 in 2020
Cover of Designing Data-Intensive Applications #3

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

Martin Kleppmann walks backend engineers through every database, queue, and consistency tradeoff they'll eventually get paged about.

9 in 2020
Cover of The Phoenix Project #4

The Phoenix Project

Gene Kim

A struggling IT VP inherits a doomed project, a company on the edge of collapse, and one coworker who has quietly become the company's entire bottleneck.

9 in 2020
Cover of The Pragmatic Programmer #5

The Pragmatic Programmer

Andy Hunt

Two working programmers write down the shop habits senior engineers use so junior ones stop reinventing them badly.

6 in 2020
Cover of The Manager's Path #6

The Manager's Path

Camille Fournier

A software engineer becomes a tech lead, then a manager, then a director, and the book insists on teaching you each rung separately.

5 in 2020
Cover of Accelerate #7

Accelerate

Nicole Forsgren

Four researchers measure what actually makes software teams fast, and the findings keep getting cited against companies mistaking speed for shortcuts.

4 in 2020
Cover of Design Patterns #8

Design Patterns

Erich Gamma

Four authors catalog twenty-three recurring object-oriented problems in 1994 and hand every future code review the same argument to have.

4 in 2020
Cover of The Clean Coder #9

The Clean Coder

Robert C. Martin

Uncle Bob's professionalism manual: say no to bad estimates, refuse death marches, and work the 40 hours then study on your own time.

4 in 2020
Cover of Clean Architecture #10

Clean Architecture

Robert C. Martin

Robert Martin's rule: business logic sits at the center of the system, frameworks and databases plug in at the edges, never the other way around.

3 in 2020
Cover of Code Complete #11

Code Complete

Steve McConnell

Steve McConnell's seven-hundred-page argument that construction, not design or testing, is where most software quality is actually won or lost.

3 in 2020
Cover of Refactoring #12

Refactoring

Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler's method for restructuring code's internals without anyone outside noticing that anything changed at all.

3 in 2020
Cover of The Mythical Man-Month #13

The Mythical Man-Month

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Fred Brooks managed IBM's late-1960s OS/360 project, then wrote the book explaining why adding more programmers only made it later.

3 in 2020
Cover of Effective Java #14

Effective Java

Joshua Bloch

Joshua Bloch turns fifty-plus Java gotchas into itemized rules, and one of them — favor composition over inheritance — outgrew the book entirely.

2 in 2020
Cover of Elements of Programming Interviews in Python #15

Elements of Programming Interviews in Python

Adnan Aziz

Three hundred coding-interview problems, an online judge, and a study guide, all built to answer a shorthand Reddit already assumes you know: EPI.

2 in 2020
Cover of Introduction to Algorithms #16

Introduction to Algorithms

Thomas H. Cormen

A course syllabus gets posted, and a Redditor recognizes it as nothing but this book's chapter headings in disguise.

2 in 2020
Cover of Never Split the Difference #17

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

A former FBI hostage negotiator teaches you to get what you want in any negotiation by never actually accepting the middle.

2 in 2020
Cover of Peopleware #18

Peopleware

Tom DeMarco

DeMarco and Lister time how long it takes a programmer to get back into the zone after one interruption, then build a whole management argument around that number.

2 in 2020
Cover of The Effective Manager #19

The Effective Manager

Mark Horstman

Mark Horstman turns 'have a good one-on-one with your reports' into a repeatable weekly protocol, built out of his Manager Tools podcast.

2 in 2020
Cover of The Unicorn Project #20

The Unicorn Project

Gene Kim

A senior engineer gets exiled to a doomed payroll project and finds a rogue skunkworks team racing to save the company's flagship app before the deadline kills it.

2 in 2020
Cover of Domain-Driven Design #21

Domain-Driven Design

Eric Evans

An interviewer asks if you've read Domain-Driven Design, then pivots to recursive Fibonacci when the answer gets complicated.

1 in 2020
Cover of Eloquent JavaScript #22

Eloquent JavaScript

Marijn Haverbeke

Marijn Haverbeke's free JavaScript book teaches closures and recursion, then has its own author admit he wouldn't wish a game-programming career on anyone.

1 in 2020
Cover of Head First Design Patterns #23

Head First Design Patterns

Eric Freeman

A junior dev dreads every requirement change until a book full of cartoon ducks and strategy patterns rewires how they see the problem.

1 in 2020
Cover of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs #24

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson

Six chapters into Scheme, you're writing an interpreter for a language you invented an hour ago.

1 in 2020
Cover of System Design Interview #25

System Design Interview

Alex Xu

You get handed a whiteboard and forty-five minutes to design something like TinyURL, and this is the crash course for surviving that conversation.

1 in 2020