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Top 50 New Software Development Books

It's been nine months since I created the Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever, with the best books ever released. I still refer to it when I want to pick up a timeless classic.

But last week I suddenly had the desire to know what the new best software development books are. And I couldn't find any such list. So, of course, I made it myself.

In this post I proudly present the Top 50 New Software Development Books, where new means "less than two years old". This list was created using a weighed mix of the following criteria:

• Number of ratings on Amazon.com
• Average rating on Amazon.com
• Number of ratings on GoodReads.com
• Averate rating on GoodReads.com

Note: The time that has passed since a book's release date waspart of the calculation. For example: A book that got three 5-starratings in just four months is listed higher than a book that got thesame ratings in a much longer period of time.

Some other things worth pointing out:

• Like in the previous edition, I ignored all technology-specific titles. Only books about generic software engineering topics were allowed on the list.
• I discarded all re-releases of books that had earlier editions before 2007. The only exception is Making Things Happen, because Scott Berkun changed the title of his book. And because he's a nice bloke who granted an interview with me.
• Thomas Erl is on this list three times (#6, #17, #24). He didn't pay me for that, unfortunately. He just did it all by himself.
• Three books released in 2009 were already able to get listed here, which is quite an achievement: Agile Testing (#28), 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know (#33), and Scrumban (#49).
• There are 22 books from 2007 on this list, 25 books from 2008, and 3 from 2009.
• While making this list I drank 8 cups of coffee, and consumed a full bag of Belgian chocolates.
• This must be the first list of mine where Steve McConnell is not listed.

I hope you will enjoy the results...

  Title / Author(s) Release
1 Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
Scott Rosenberg 26-1-2007 2 Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin 11-8-2008 3 Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
Andy Hunt 15-8-2008 4 Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
Michael Lopp 12-6-2007 5 Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
Andy Oram, Greg Wilson 26-6-2007 6 SOA Principles of Service Design
Thomas Erl 28-7-2007 7 The Productive Programmer
Neal Ford 3-7-2008 8 Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent
Joel Spolsky 31-5-2007 9 Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management
Scott Berkun 25-3-2008 10 Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
Michael Nygard 30-3-2007 11 The Art of Agile Development
James Shore, Shane Warden 26-10-2007 12 Service-Oriented Modeling: Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture
Michael Bell 25-2-2008 13 Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises
Dean Leffingwell 8-3-2007 14 The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
Charles Petzold 16-6-2008 15 Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
Bill Buxton 11-4-2007 16 Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk
Paul Duvall, Steve Matyas, Andrew Glover 9-7-2007 17 SOA Design Patterns
Thomas Erl 23-10-2008 18 The Developer's Guide to Debugging
Thorsten Gr?tker, Ulrich Holtmann, Holger Keding, Markus Wloka 11-8-2008 19 Agile Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success
Amr Elssamadisy 7-7-2008 20 Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
Johanna Rothman 7-6-2007 21 The Principles of Project Management
Meri Williams 13-3-2008 22 Introduction to Information Retrieval
Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze 7-7-2008 23 Head First Software Development
Dan Pilone, Russ Miles 11-1-2007 24 Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA
Thomas Erl, Anish Karmarkar, Priscilla Walmsley 21-9-2008 25 The Art of Multiprocessor Programming
Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit 29-2-2008 26 Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum
Craig Larman, Bas Vodde 22-12-2008 27 SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design
Nicolai M. Josuttis 24-8-2007 28 Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory 5-1-2009 29 The Business Analyst's Handbook
Howard Podeswa 4-11-2008 30 Scrum and XP from the Trenches
Henrik Kniberg 4-10-2007 31 xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code
Gerard Meszaros 31-5-2007 32 Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies
Michael Rosen, Boris Lublinsky, Kevin T. Smith, Marc J. Balcer 13-6-2008 33 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Richard Monson-Haefel 13-2-2009 34 Perfect Software: And Other Illusions about Testing
Gerald M. Weinberg 29-8-2008 35 Expert Product Management: Advanced Techniques, Tips and Strategies for Product Management & Product Marketing
Brian Lawley 10-10-2007 36 The Enterprise and Scrum
Ken Schwaber 13-6-2007 37 Algorithms in a Nutshell
George Heineman, Gary Pollice, Stanley Selkow 1-11-2008 38 The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility
Michele Sliger, Stacia Broderick 29-5-2008 39 Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions
Bill Scott, Theresa Neil 15-1-2008 40 If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire?
Lisa K. Simone 23-3-2007 41 Puzzles for Programmers and Pros
Dennis Shasha 7-5-2007 42 Managing the Test People
Judy McKay 27-4-2007 43 Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools
Karl E. Wiegers 8-8-2007 44 Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises
Roger Sessions 19-5-2008 45 How We Test Software at Microsoft
Alan Page, Ken Johnston, Bj Rollison 16-8-2008 46 The One Page Project Manager for IT Projects
Clark A. Campbell 4-8-2008 47 The Art of Lean Software Development: A Practical and Incremental Approach
Curt Hibbs, Steve Jewett, Mike Sullivan 15-12-2008 48 Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software
Patrick Cauldwell 5-5-2008 49 Scrumban - Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development
Corey Ladas 12-1-2009 50 Software Requirement Patterns
Stephen Withall 13-6-2007

The book Getting Results from Software Development Teams from Lawrence J. Peters (8-6-2008) would have been #51. But alas, I have to stop somewhere...