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Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places — Darren Hardy

The idea to collect a list of books that knowledgeable, experienced and well-known programmers recommends to read comes to me from The long Journey to Ruby Mastery conference talk by Bozhidar Batsov.

Here I share what I have found so far: the books recommendations from the Bozhidar talk, lists by Uncle Bob, and Kent Beck, books from blog posts by Jeff Atwood and DHH.