What ?

A book club is a reading group, usually consisting of a number of people who read and share about books based on a topic or an agreed-upon reading list.
It’s common for book clubs to choose a specific book to read and discuss at the same time. Formal book clubs meet on a regular basis at a set location.
Most book clubs meet monthly in order to give members time to read the next book.

Why ?

Because you will learn a lot and it is not the only benefit :

• You’ll have the opportunity to read more books
• You can make new friends
  • Create empathy between colleagues
  • Meet new people
• You could set the tone of your own club
• It will help you diversify your reading list
• You will have the chance to share about books with other passionate guys
• It’s a place to debate about something other than politics

How ?

• Create a book club in your company (if needed)
• Organize a monthly session
• Choose a book
  • The one you really want to read
  • Introduce the book during the next session
  • Each participant can introduce his/her book during each session
  • Vote for the more interesting one
• Share about the book during the next session

Resources

• How to Start a Book Club Checklist
• Start a Book Club
• Create a book club

Our recommended books

Software craftsmanship

• Robert C. Martin. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, 2008
• Andrew Hunt, David Thomas. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
• Robert C. Martin. Clean architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design, 2017
• Kevlin Henney, 97 things every programmer should know, 2010
• Sandro Mancuso, The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride, 2014
• Martin Fowler, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999
• Michael C. Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code, 2004
• Martin Fowler, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, 2002
• Kent Beck, Extreme Programming Explained, 1999
• Kent Beck, Test Driven Development: By Example, 2002
• Patrick Kua. Talking with tech leads, 2015
• Gojko Adzic. Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software, 2011
• Lisa Crispin. Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, 2009

Agile/Lean/Management

• Eric Ries. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, 2011
• Jurgen Appelo. Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, 2011
• Jurgen Appelo. Managing for hapiness: Games, Tools and practices to motivate any team, 2016*
• Esther Derby. Diana Larsen. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, 2006
• Jason Little. Lean Change Managment: Innovative Practices For Managing Organizational Change, 2014
• Gojko Adzic. Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects, 2012
• Mike Cohn. Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum, 2009
• Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck. Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash, 2006
• David J. Anderson. Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, 2010
• Johanna Rothman, Esther Derby. Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management, 2005
• Mike Cohn. Agile Estimating and Planning, 2005

Miscellaneous

• Mike Rohde. The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking, 2012
• Tim Brown. Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation, 2009
• Jake Knapp. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, 2016
• Jeff Gothelf. Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams, 2016