Books

Books I have read and keep on my shelf: the favourites first, then a mixed shelf.

Favourite Books

  1. The Anxious Generation – Jonathan Haidt
  2. The 5 Types of Wealth – Sahil Bloom
  3. Liminal Thinking – Dave Gray
  4. Gamestorming – Dave Gray
  5. Radical Focus – Christina Wodtke
  6. Build Better Products – Laura Klein
  7. Make Time – Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
  8. Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  9. Remote: Office Not Required – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  10. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  11. Shape Up – Ryan Singer
  12. Laws of UX – Jon Yablonski
  13. User Story Mapping – Jeff Patton
  14. You Have Too Much Shit – Chris Ballantine-Thomas
  15. What You Do Is Who You Are – Ben Horowitz
  16. Indistractable – Nir Eyal & Julie Li
  17. Making Ideas Happen – Scott Belsky
  18. Maximize Your Potential – Jocelyn K. Glei
  19. Make Your Mark – Jocelyn K. Glei
  20. Sprint – Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky & Braden Kowitz
  21. Going Responsive – Karen Mcgrane
  22. Responsible Responsive Design – Scott Jehl
  23. Mobile First – Luke Wroblewski
  24. Sass for Web Designers – Dan Cederholm
  25. Demystifying Public Speaking – Lara Hogan
  26. Inspired – Marty Cagan
  27. Atomic Design – Brad Frost
  28. Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug
  29. Resilient Web Design – Jeremy Keith
  30. Intercom on Product Management
  31. Intercom On Starting Up
  32. Building a Device Lab – Destiny Montague & Lara Hogan
  33. Design for Real Life – Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher
  34. Resilient Management – Lara Hogan
  35. Essentialism – Greg McKeown
  36. Material World: A Global Family Portrait – Peter Menzel
  37. Learning Agile – Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
  38. Strategize – Roman Pichler
  39. How to Lead in Product Management – Roman Pichler
  40. La guerra nel team – Patrick Lencioni
  41. Empowered – Marty Cagan
  42. Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance
  43. Outcomes Over Output – Joshua Seiden
  44. The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide – Francine Jay
  45. Reinventing Organizations – Frederic Laloux
  46. This Is Lean – Niklas Modig & Pär Åhlström
  47. Manage Your Day-to-Day – 99U
  48. Continuous Discovery Habits – Teresa Torres
  49. Understanding Privacy – Heather Burns
  50. Business Model You – Tim Clark, Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
  51. Time Is Money – Tammy Everts
  52. The Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman
  53. Designing for Performance – Lara Callender Hogan
  54. You’re My Favorite Client – Mike Monteiro
  55. Just Enough Research – Erika Hall
  56. Design Is a Job – Mike Monteiro
  57. Web Performance in Action – Jeremy Wagner
  58. Evidence-Guided – Itamar Gilad
  59. Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories – Gojko Adzic & David Evans
  60. Impact Mapping – Gojko Adzic
  61. Agile Product Management with Scrum – Roman Pichler
  62. Unsubscribe – Jocelyn K Glei

Mixed Books

  • Made in Italy? – Giuseppe Iorio
  • Lying – Sam Harris
  • Gomorra – Roberto Saviano
  • Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
  • So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport
  • Product Operations – Melissa Perri & Denise Tilles
  • Job Moves – Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn, and Bob Moesta
  • A Pocket Guide to Front-End Style Guides – Anna Debenham
  • Surviving Change at Work – Vanessa Gennarelli
  • Lizard Optimization – Gojko Adzic
  • Everyday Information Architecture – Lisa Maria Marquis
  • The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter: Volume 1
  • Flexible Typesetting – Tim Brown
  • Going Offline – Jeremy Keith
  • Walden – Henry David Thoreau
  • Le 7 regole per avere successo – Stephen Covey
  • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk – Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
  • Set Boundaries, Find Peace – Nedra Glover Tawwab
  • The Honest Truth About Dishonesty – Dan Ariely
  • The Second World War: A Complete History – Martin Gilbert
  • Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces – Steven Hoober
  • L’uomo e la terra. Luci e ombre. – Edward Burtynsky
  • Product Management for UX People – Christian Crumlish
  • Deliberate Intervention – Alexandra Schmidt
  • Conversational Design – Erika Hall
  • Team Mastery – Geoff Watts
  • Le parole sono finestre (oppure muri) – Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • The Strategy Activation Playbook – Aric Wood
  • The New CSS Layout – Rachel Andrew
  • Let my people go surfing – Yvon Chouinard
  • L’arte della guerra – Sun Tzu
  • Crescere i bambini con la comunicazione nonviolenta – Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • Authentic communication – Alexei Ivanov, Sveta Shedina
  • The Ameriguns – Gabriele Galimberti
  • Click! How to Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks – Paul Boag
  • Responsible JavaScript – Jeremy Wagner
  • SEO For Everyone – Rebekah Baggs & Chris Corak
  • Better Onboarding – Krystal Higgins
  • Sustainable Web Design – Tom Greenwood
  • Progressive Web Apps – Jason Grigsby
  • Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
  • Costituzione Italiana
  • Design Systems – Alla Kholmatova
  • Product-Led Onboarding – Ramli John
  • Epic Alignment – Nils Janse
  • Hiring Product Managers – Kate Leto
  • Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
  • HYPERGROWTH – David Cancel
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant – Eric Jorgenson
  • Hieronymus Bosch: L’opera completa – Stefan Fischer
  • Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Made in Dance, 1991-1999 – Oleg Codikov
  • Startup, Scaleup, Screwup – Jurgen Appelo
  • Accessibility for Everyone – Laura Kalbag
  • The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Scandinavian Style at Home – Allan Torp
  • The Team That Managed Itself – Christina Wodtke
  • L’unica regola è che non ci sono regole – Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
  • “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman” – Richard P. Feynman
  • What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets – Peter Menzel
  • The Workshopper Playbook – Jonathan Courtney
  • Escaping the Build Trap – Melissa Perri
  • Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Retrospectives – Tom Roden & Ben Williams
  • 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know – Gunther Verheyen
  • The Serving Leader – Ken Jennings & John Stahl-Wert
  • The Business of Platforms – Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer & David B. Yoffie
  • Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting – Eilon Paz
  • Free-Range Kids – Lenore Skenazy
  • Start with Why – Simon Sinek
  • 17 Anti-Procrastination Hacks – Dominic Mann
  • Change by Design – Tim Brown
  • Innovation Lab Excellence – Richard Turrin
  • The FINTECH Book – Susanne Chishti & Janos Barberis
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
  • Management 3.0 – Jurgen Appelo
  • Agile Estimating and Planning – Mike Cohn
  • Dieci ragioni per cancellare subito i tuoi account social – Jaron Lanier
  • AI Superpowers – Kai-Fu Lee
  • The New York Times Explorer Cities & Towns – Barbara Ireland
  • Minimal Film – Matteo Civaschi
  • Practical Design Discovery – Dan Brown
  • Living in Information – Jorge Arango
  • Everything is Negotiable – Gavin Kennedy
  • The Growth Handbook – Intercom
  • The Innovator’s Solution – Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor
  • JavaScript For Web Designers – Mat Marquis
  • Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built – Duncan Clark
  • Striking Thoughts – Bruce Lee
  • Practical SVG – Chris Coyier
  • WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us – Tim O'Reilly
  • Product Mastery – Geoff Watts
  • A Practical Guide to Managing Web Projects – Breandan Knowlton
  • Make Space – Scott Doorley & Scott Witthoft
  • The Elements of Content Strategy – Erin Kissane
  • Content Strategy for Mobile – Karen McGrane
  • Data-Informed Product Design – Pamela Pavliscak
  • Front-End Style Guides – Anna Debenham
  • Product Leadership – Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson & Nate Walkingshaw
  • Le leggi della semplicità – John Maeda
  • You Don’t Know JS – Kyle Simpson
  • User Experience Revolution – Paul Boag
  • The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Freelance Web Design Business – Cory Miller
  • The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work – Zapier
  • Thinking in JavaScript – Aravind Shenoy
  • The Smashing Book 6: New Frontiers In Web Design
  • The Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design – Part 2
  • The Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design – Part 1
  • The Smashing Book 4: New Perspectives on Web Design
  • The Smashing Book 3: Redesign The Web
  • The Smashing Book 2
  • The Smashing Book 1
  • The Smashing Book: Performance Optimization – Techniques And Strategies
  • The Mobile Web Handbook – Peter-Paul Koch
  • The Smashing Book: The Mobile Book
  • I Want To Hire You But Your Resume Sucks – Cory Miller
  • Grow – Jim Stengel
  • Getting Real – Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson & Matthew Linderman
  • Come funziona Google – Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
  • Getting Paid Well To Do What You Love – Cory Miller
  • The Entrepreneurial Adventure: Is It For You? – Cory Miller
  • Digital Adaptation – Paul Boag
  • Designing for Touch – Josh Clark
  • Designing for Emotion – Aarron Walter
  • The Conversation Company – Steven Van Belleghem
  • Connect The Dots – Paul Jun
  • Come imparare una cosa al giorno e non invecchiare mai – Roberto Vacca
  • The Smashing Book: A Career On The Web – On The Road To Success
  • Le 22 immutabili leggi del marketing – Al Ries & Jack Trout
  • Style: Writing from the UnderGround – IGTimes
  • M.C. Escher: Grafica e Disegni – Taschen
  • Startup Opportunities – Sean Wise & Brad Feld
  • Essential: Essays by The Minimalists – Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
  • Git for Humans – David Demaree
  • Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles – Ethan Marcotte
  • Do the Work – Steven Pressfield
  • Blind Spot – Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff & Sean Sauber
  • Why We Fail – Victor Lombardi
  • Hardboiled Web Design – Andrew Clarke
  • Nocturnal: Global Highflyers – Phil Beddard
  • Wall and Piece – Banksy
  • USA On The Road – Insight Guides
  • You Only Live Once – Lonely Planet
  • Strengths Finder 2.0 – Gallup
  • Poke the Box – Seth Godin
  • We Are All Weird – Seth Godin
  • V Is for Vulnerable – Seth Godin
  • All Marketers Are Liars – Seth Godin
  • Ignore Everybody – Hugh MacLeod
  • Tribes – Seth Godin
  • The Dip – Seth Godin
  • Thinking With Type – Ellen Lupton
  • The $1 Prototype – Greg Nudelman
  • Lean UX – Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden
  • Microinteractions – Dan Saffer
  • Badass: Making Users Awesome – Kathy Sierra
  • High Performance Mobile Web – Maximiliano Firtman
  • Using WebPageTest – Rick Viscomi, Andy Davies & Marcel Duran
  • Discussing Design – Adam Connor & Aaron Irizarry
  • Your Network Is Your Net Worth – Porter Gale
  • Web Performance Daybook Volume 2 – Stoyan Stefanov
  • Jamie‘s Italy – Jamie Oliver
  • Scarcity – Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir
  • The Year Without Pants – Scott Berkun
  • Professional WordPress – Brad Williams, David Damstra & Hal Stern
  • Content Rules – Ann Handley & C. C. Chapman
  • Illuminate – Nancy Duarte & Patti Sanchez
  • Lean Websites – Barbara Bermes
  • The Shape of Design – Frank Chimero
  • Responsive Web Design – Ethan Marcotte
  • HTML5 for Web Designers – Jeremy Keith & Rachel Andrew
  • Digging Into WordPress – Chris Coyier & Jeff Starr
  • Essential Zen Habits – Leo Babauta
  • Clients From Hell: A collection of anonymously-contributed client horror stories from designers
  • The Leu Family’s Family Iron – Fabio Paleari
  • Disruptive Marketing – Geoffrey Colon
  • Extreme Teams – Robert Bruce Shaw
  • Subway Art – Martha Cooper
  • Career Renegade – Jonathan Fields
  • Show Your Work! – Austin Kleon
  • Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon
  • The Economics Book – DK Big Ideas
  • The Philosophy Book – DK Big Ideas
  • Practical Empathy – Indi Young
  • The Conversation Manager – Steven Van Belleghem
  • The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking – Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird
  • On Bullshit – Harry G. Frankfurt
  • How to Win Friends & Influence People – Dale Carnegie
  • Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life – Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
  • Your Money: The Missing Manual – J.D. Roth
  • This is Service Design Thinking – Jakob Schneider
  • Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh
  • Learn Something Every Day – Kee Malesky
  • The Art of Non-Conformity – Chris Guillebeau
  • Hooked – Nir Eyal
  • Mobile Usability – Jakob Nielsen & Raluca Budiu
  • The Sketchnote Handbook – Mike Rohde
  • Implementing Responsive Design – Tim Kadlec
  • 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People – Susan M. Weinschenk
  • The $100 Startup – Chris Guillebeau
  • The 4-Hour Workweek – Timothy Ferriss
  • Getting Unstuck – Hugh Thompson & Bob Sullivan
  • Getting Things Done – David Allen
  • Designing the Search Experience – Tony Russell-Rose & Tyler Tate
  • Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook – Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Knowledge Is Beautiful – David McCandless
  • Information Is Beautiful – David McCandless