Book Overflow
Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups
In a world of short-form content, it's important to engage with long-form ideas. Book Overflow is a podcast created for software engineers, by software engineers to discuss the best technical books in the world. Join co-hosts Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups each week as they discuss a new technical book! New episodes every Monday!
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Book Overflow podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 18 episodes
Fundamentals of Software Architecture
Mark Richards
Neal Ford
#2 Mentioned in 15 episodes
The Philosophy of Software Design
John Osterholt
#3 Mentioned in 14 episodes
Refactoring
Improving the Design of Existing Code
Martin Fowler
#4 Mentioned in 14 episodes
Made to Stick
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath
Dan Heath
#5 Mentioned in 13 episodes
The DevOps handbook
Gene Kim
#6 Mentioned in 12 episodes
The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim
#7 Mentioned in 10 episodes
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
Martin Kleppman
#8 Mentioned in 10 episodes
Team Topologies
Matthew Skelton
Manuel Pais
Ruth Malan
#9 Mentioned in 9 episodes
Software Engineer's Guidebook
Georges Oroz
#10 Mentioned in 9 episodes
Staff Engineer
Tanya Reilly
Will Larson
#11 Mentioned in 8 episodes
The clean coder
A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
Robert C. Martin
#12 Mentioned in 8 episodes
UNIX
A History and a Memoir
Brian Kernighan
#13 Mentioned in 7 episodes
Building Evolutionary Architectures
Neal Ford
Patrick Kua
Rebecca Parsons
Pramod Sadalage
#14 Mentioned in 7 episodes
Thinking in systems
A Primer
Diana Wright
Donella Meadows
#15 Mentioned in 7 episodes
Working effectively with legacy code
Michael Feathers
#16 Mentioned in 7 episodes
Tidy First
Kent Beck
#17 Mentioned in 7 episodes
Slow Productivity
The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Cal Newport
#18 Mentioned in 6 episodes
Radical Candor
Be a Kick-ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
#19 Mentioned in 6 episodes
What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work
steven wolfram
#20 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Crafting Engineering Strategy
How Thoughtful Decisions Solve Complex Problems
Will Larson
