# Book worms out there - what do you recommend? **URL:** \ **Category:** Archive\ **Tags:** books\ **Created:** [10 April 2019 14:58 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/book-worms-out-there-what-do-you-recommend/24648 "2019-04-10T14:58:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![melissafisher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/melissafisher/32/8020_2.png) [@melissafisher](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/melissafisher)\ **Post date:** [10 April 2019 14:58 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/book-worms-out-there-what-do-you-recommend/24648/1 "2019-04-10T14:58:24Z")
Hey all The Ask me anything with Lisa Crispin was awesome yesterday. I can’t believe I’ve never read Explore It! by Elisabeth Hendrickson. I ordered it from amazon and avidly reading it this afternoon. What other books can I get my hands on? thanks for reading my first post 😉 I hope to get more involved over the upcoming weeks. ---
**Author:** ![ahopkins180](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/ahopkins180/32/5301_2.png) [@ahopkins180](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/ahopkins180)\ **Post date:** [10 April 2019 19:57 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/book-worms-out-there-what-do-you-recommend/24648/3 "2019-04-10T19:57:05Z")
You can read: - Dear Evil Tester by Alan Richardson - Don’t make me think by Steve Krug ---
**Author:** ![devtotest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/devtotest/32/2857_2.png) [@devtotest](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/devtotest)\ **Post date:** [10 April 2019 21:38 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/book-worms-out-there-what-do-you-recommend/24648/4 "2019-04-10T21:38:09Z")
Hello @melissafisher! Here is a partial list. While many not appear to be about testing, I found testing to be a very social activity and some of these are good reads for that. 7 Habits – Stephen Covey Agile Testing – Crispin and Gregory Beautiful Testing – Goucher How to Be Interesting – Hagy How We Test Software at Microsoft – Page, et al How Google Tests Software – Whitaker The Pragmatic Programmer – Hunt and Thomas The Invisible Gorilla – Chabris, et al Lessons Learned in Software Testing – Kaner, et al Introduction into General Systems Thinking – Weinberg Perfect Software – Weinberg Visual Meetings – Sibbet Blink – Gladwell Tacit and Explicit Knowledge – Collins The Secrets of Consulting – Weinberg How to Win Friends and Influence People – Carnegie Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell Failure is not an Option – Gene Kranz How to Observe Software Systems – Jerry Weinberg Made to Stick – Chip Heath and Dan Heath Washington’s Crossing – David Hackett Fischer Stiff – Mary Roach The Clean Coder – Bob Martin Becoming a Change Artist – Jerry Weinberg Secrets of Consulting – Jerry Weinberg Crucial Conversations – Kerry Patterson, et al 642 Things to Draw – Chronicle Books The Signal and the Noise – Silver The Artist’s Way – Cameron Thinking, Fast and Slow - Kahneman Joe ---
**Author:** ![rosie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/rosie/32/7719_2.png) [@rosie](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/rosie)\ **Post date:** [11 April 2019 07:31 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/book-worms-out-there-what-do-you-recommend/24648/5 "2019-04-11T07:31:09Z")
Great list @devtotest. I started a [Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/ministryoftest/status/1116239358326079489) to get some tips too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![melissafisher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/melissafisher/32/8020_2.png) [@melissafisher](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/melissafisher)\ **Post date:** [11 April 2019 10:59 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/book-worms-out-there-what-do-you-recommend/24648/6 "2019-04-11T10:59:59Z")
Thanks! I’ll have a look at dear evil tester. Don’t make me think is very good. ---
**Author:** ![melissafisher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/melissafisher/32/8020_2.png) [@melissafisher](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/melissafisher)\ **Post date:** [11 April 2019 11:03 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/book-worms-out-there-what-do-you-recommend/24648/7 "2019-04-11T11:03:28Z")
Wow, so many!!! Thanks for taking the time to type all of this out. Have you got a top 5 out of those? Id like to take a few on my hols. The visual meetings one has peeked my interest. ---
**Author:** ![joaofarias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/joaofarias/32/11709_2.png) [@joaofarias](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/joaofarias)\ **Post date:** [11 April 2019 13:04 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/book-worms-out-there-what-do-you-recommend/24648/8 "2019-04-11T13:04:02Z")
Bob Martin has two books with similar titles: “Clean Code” and “The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers” Both are very good, different purposes, but overlapping topics. ---
**Author:** ![joaofarias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/joaofarias/32/11709_2.png) [@joaofarias](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/joaofarias)\ **Post date:** [11 April 2019 13:05 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/book-worms-out-there-what-do-you-recommend/24648/9 "2019-04-11T13:05:48Z")
Reinforcing two already given suggestions: - Explore It! by Elisabeth Hendrickson - Thinking, Fast and Slow - Kahneman New suggestions: - Antifragile by Taleb - A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps by Katrina Clokie - Handbook of Usability Testing by Jeffrey Rubin - The Art of Unit Testing: with examples in C# by Roy Osherove - Specification by Example by Gojko Adzic ---
**Author:** ![devtotest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/devtotest/32/2857_2.png) [@devtotest](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/devtotest)\ **Post date:** [11 April 2019 22:01 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/book-worms-out-there-what-do-you-recommend/24648/10 "2019-04-11T22:01:00Z")
Hello @melissafisher! I find it challenging to pick just five. If I may take some liberty around topics, I picked five for testing and five for social. **Testing** - Specification By Example (someone else suggested this one - changed the way I think about automation and requirements) - How Google Tests Software - Thinking, Fast and Slow - Lessons Learned in Software Testing - How to Observe Software Systems **Social** - Crucial Conversations - Visual Meetings - The Invisible Gorilla - Becoming a Change Artist - 7 Habits Joe