20 Must-Read Books for a Techie


19. Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

Author: G. Pascal Zachary

Showstopper is the story behind Windows NT. How it all started as a command prompt OS and became a GUI system after the success of Windows 3.0. It describes the core of Microsoft’s project team including David Cuttler, the bright and wicked architect behind the operating system and the engineers and project leaders involved in the development of Windows NT. You can feel how some of the team members literally sacrificed their family and social life to make this thing work in time. While this is not a technical book, software developers as well as project leaders, and anyone interested by Microsoft products, will now be able to easily pull their eyes away from it.

18. The Perfect Thing

Author: Steven Levy

This is one of the coolest books about the coolest gadget of the third millennium. To write about such a cool thing, you need to deliver cool content, and Steven Levy does it amazingly. If you want to learn about the development of the iPod, how it changed Apple, the music industry, and the way consumers buy their favorite songs, then you need to get a copy of the perfect book: The Perfect Thing. Also check out how cool the book cover is!