Title: Books Read
Slug: books-read
Author: Kartones
Lang: en
Description: A list of technical, game development, and miscellaneous books read, most linking to a review post.


<h2 id="books">Books - Technical &amp; Technology</h2>

- [AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models](https://blog.kartones.net/postbook-review-ai-engineering/)
- [Algorithms at Work (Audiobook)](https://blog.kartones.net/post/audiobook-review-algorithms-at-work/)
- [97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-97-things-every-java-programmer-should-know/)
- [97 Things Every Programmer Should Know](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-97-things-every-programmer-should-know/)
- [.NET XML Web Services: Step by Step](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-net-xml-web-services-step-by-step/)
- Aplicaciones .NET multiplataforma: Proyecto Mono (Fco. Javier Ceballos Sierra)
- [Application Development with NetBeans - Begginer's guide](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-php-application-development-with-netbeans/)
- [ASP.NET 4 Social Networking](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-asp-net-4-social-networking/)
- [Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL: From Novice to Professional](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-beginning-databases-with-postgresql-from-novice-to-professional/)
- [Blog Profits Blueprint](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-blog-profits-blueprint/)
- [Building Microservices](https://blog.kartones.net/post/Book-Review-Building-Microservices/)
- [Building Scalable Websites](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-building-scalable-websites/)
- [Building Web Applications with SVG](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-building-web-applications-with-svg/)
- C++ Learn in 24 Hours (Alex Nordeen)
- [Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software](https://blog.kartones.net/post/Book-Review-Code-The-Hidden-Language-of-Computer-Hardware-and-Software/)
- [Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering your Software](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-coder-to-developer/)
- [Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach](https://blog.kartones.net/post/Book-Review-Computer-Networking-A-Top-Down-Approach/)
- [Core Bazel: Fast Builds For Busy People](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-core-bazel-fast-builds/)
- [Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-design-patters-gang-of-four/)
- [Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-developing-web-applications-with-oracle-adf-essentials/)
- [Elon Musk](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-elon-musk-walter-isaacson/)
- [Getting Real](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-getting-real/)
- [Hands-on Testing with PHPUnit How-to](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-hands-on-testing-with-phpunit-how-to/)
- Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 (Laurence Moroney)
- [Learning LEGO Mindstorms EV3](https://blog.kartones.net/post/Book-Review-Learning-LEGO-Mindstorms-EV3/)
- [Learning Python Design Patterns](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-learning-python-design-patterns/)
- [LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Essentials](https://blog.kartones.net/post/Book-Review-Lego-Mindstorms-EV3-Essentials/)
- Lenguaje ensamblador de los 80x86 (Jon Beltran De Heredia)
- Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Step by Step (George Shepherd)
- Microsoft Visual Basic 2008: Step by Step (Michael Halvorson)
- Microsoft Windows Internals, 4th Edition (Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon)
- [One Click: Jeff Bezos and the rise of Amazon.com](https://blog.kartones.net/post/Book-Review-One-Click-Jeff-Bezos-and-the-rise-of-Amazoncom/)
- [PHP 5 Social Networking](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-php-5-social-networking/)
- [PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-php-objects-patterns-and-practice/)
- [Pro Git](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-pro-git/)
- Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (John Holliday, John Alexander)
- Programming .NET Security (Adam Freeman, Allen Jones)
- Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics (Dino Esposito)
- [Python testing with Pytest](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-python-testing-with-pytest/)
- [Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-teach-yourself-java-21-days/)
- [Site Reliability Engineering](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-site-reliability-engineering/)
- [Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-sphinx-search-beginner-s-guide/)
- [System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-system-design-interview/)
- [Teach yourself visually Search Engine Optimization](https://blog.kartones.net/post/Book-Review-Teach-yourself-visually-Search-Engine-Optimization/)
- [The Art of Readable Code](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-art-of-readable-code/)
- [The Creative Programmer](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-creative-programmer/)
- [The LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Discovery Book](https://blog.kartones.net/post/Book-Review-The-LEGO-Mindstorms-EV3-Discovery-Book/)
- [The Mythical Man-Month](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-mythical-man-month/)
- [The New Rules: Developer's Guide to AI Era](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-new-rules/)
- [The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-pragmatic-programmer/)
- [The Tech Resume Inside Out](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-tech-resume-inside-out/)
- [Tidy First?](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-tidy-first/)
- [TortoiseSVN 1.7: Beginners Guide](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-tortoisesvn-1-7-beginner-s-guide/)
- [Two Scoops of Django 1.11](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-two-scoops-of-django-1-11/)
- Windows Server 2008 Administrator’s Companion (Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford)
- [Writing Idiomatic Python](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-writing-idiomatic-python/)
- [Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista](https://blog.kartones.net/page/old-book-reviews#book003)


<h2 id="books-gamedev">Books - Game Development &amp; Videogames</h2>

- [50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-50-years-of-text-games)
- [Boinas Verdes: De Commandos a Pyro Studios](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-boinas-verdes-commandos-pyro-studios/)
- [Commodore AMIGA: A visual compendium](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-commodore-amiga-a-visual-compendium/)
- [Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle That Defined a Generation](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-console-wars/)
- [DOOM Guy: Life in First Person](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-doom-guy-john-romero/)
- [Dune II - Insider's Guide](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-dune-2-insiders-guide/)
- [Dungeon Hacks: How NetHack, Angband, and Other Roguelikes Changed the Course of Video Games ](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-dungeon-hacks/)
- [Game Engine Black Book: Doom](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-game-engine-black-book-doom/)
- [Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-game-engine-black-book-wolfenstein-3d/)
- [HTML5 Game Development Hotshot](https://blog.kartones.net/post/Book-Review-HTML5-Game-Development-Hotshot/)
- [Infinite Game Universe: Mathematical Techniques](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-infinite-game-universe-mathematical-techniques/)
- [Making games with Phaser: Color Zap](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-making-games-with-phaser-color-zap/)
- [Masters of Doom](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-masters-of-doom/)
- [Obsequium](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-obsequium/)
- Ocean: The History (Chris Wilkins & Roger M. Kean)
- [Ocho Quilates (Una historia de la Edad de Oro del software español)](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-ocho-quilates-la-edad-de-oro-del-software-espa-241-ol/)
- [Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-power-up/)
- [Rocket Jump: Quake and the Golden Age of First-Person Shooters](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-rocket-jump/)
- [Sid Meier's Memoir! A Life in Computer Games](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-sid-meiers-memoir/)
- [Speccy Nation](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-speccy-nation/)
- Spectrum: El arte de los videojuegos (Alfonso Azpiri)
- [Stairway to Badass: The Making and Remaking of Doom](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-stairway-to-badass-making-and-remaking-of-doom/)
- [Stay Awhile and Listen: How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Videogame Empire](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-stay-awhile-and-listen/)
- [Stay Awhile and Listen: Book II: Heaven, Hell, and Secret Cow Levels](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-stay-awhile-and-listen-2/)
- [The Book of CP-System](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-book-of-cp-system/)
- [The Making of Prince of Persia](https://blog.kartones.net/post/Book-Review-The-making-of-Prince-of-Persia/)
- [Videogame Marketing and PR](https://blog.kartones.net/page/old-book-reviews#book004)
- [WRONG! Retro Games, You Messed Up Our Comic Book Heroes!](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-wrong-retro-games-messed-up-comic-book-heroes/)


<h2 id="books-miscellaneous">Books - Miscellaneous</h2>


- A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
- [At The Heart Of Management](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-at-the-heart-of-management/)
- [Buffettology](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-buffettology/)
- [Can holding a fart kill you?](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-can-holding-a-fart-kill-you/)
- [Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-digital-minimalism/)
- [Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-disrupted/)
- [Don't make me think](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-don-t-make-me-think/)
- [Drive: The Surprising truth about what motivates us](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-drive-the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us/)
- [How Ideas Spread](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-how-ideas-spread/)
- [How to Talk to Anyone](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-how-to-talk-to-anyone/)
- [How to win friends and influence people](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people/)
- [It's Not How Good You Are. It's How Good You Want To Be](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-its-not-how-good-you-are-its-how-good-you-want-to-be/)
- [Managing Humans](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-managing-humans/)
- [Organiza tus ideas utilizando mapas mentales](https://blog.kartones.net/page/old-book-reviews#book001)
- [Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-peopleware-productive-projects-and-teams/)
- [Ready Player One](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-ready-player-one/)
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon Lechter)
- [Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-rinsed-from-cartels-to-crypto/)
- Steve Jobs (by Walter Isaacson)
- Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick (Tsutomu Shimomura, John Markoff)
- [Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-ten-arguments-deleting-social-media-accounts-now/)
- [The 48 Laws of Power](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-48-laws-of-power/)
- [The Art of LEGO Design](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-art-of-lego-design/)
- [The Bill Gates Problem](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-bill-gates-problem/)
- [The Business Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-business-book/)
- [The Design of Everyday Things](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-design-of-everyday-things/)
- [The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-economics-book/)
- [The New Corporation](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-new-corporation/)
- [The One Minute Manager](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-one-minute-manager/)
- [The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-one-thing/)
- [The subtle art of not giving a f*ck](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-fck/)
- [Thinking Fast and Slow](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-thinking-fast-and-slow/)
- [Whatever you think, think the opposite](https://blog.kartones.net/post/book-review-whatever-you-think-think-the-opposite)

For even more offtopic readings, like comic books, fantasy and science-fiction, [check this other reviews page](https://theelderthoughts.blogs.kartones.net/page/reviews/).

You can also find my read books list [at StoryGraph](https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/kartones).