DevOps Reading List
1. 
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
by:
Gene Kim
4.26 avg rating — 48,827 ratings 
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The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
by:
Gene Kim
4.30 avg rating — 5,749 ratings 
10. 
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
by:
Simon Sinek
4.10 avg rating — 257,720 ratings 
14. 
The Visible Ops Handbook: Starting ITIL in 4 Practical Steps
by:
Kevin Behr
3.96 avg rating — 560 ratings 
16. 
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
by:
Betsy Beyer
4.21 avg rating — 2,844 ratings 17. 
High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication
by:
Baron Schwartz
4.39 avg rating — 236 ratings 18. 
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by:
Charles Duhigg
4.13 avg rating — 549,115 ratings 20. 
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business 3.90 avg rating — 3,700 ratings
21. 
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
3.96 avg rating — 614,696 ratings 
22. 
Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery: A Hands-On Guide to Deploying and Managing Software in Production
by:
Yevgeniy Brikman
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
by:
Nicole Forsgren
4.06 avg rating — 7,835 ratings 29. 
Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others 3.97 avg rating — 1,221 ratings
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Beyond the Goal: Eliyahu Goldratt Speaks on the Theory of Constraints 4.08 avg rating — 615 ratings
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The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise
by:
Martin L. Abbott
3.99 avg rating — 353 ratings 
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by:
Chip Heath
3.98 avg rating — 97,579 ratings 38. 
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
by:
Steve Blank
3.95 avg rating — 16,651 ratings 
41. 
Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
by:
Jez Humble
4.24 avg rating — 1,542 ratings 42. 
Visible Ops Security: Achieving Common Security and IT Operations Objectives in 4 Practical Steps
by:
Gene Kim
4.13 avg rating — 95 ratings 43. 
The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results
by:
Stephen Bungay
4.32 avg rating — 1,214 ratings 
45. 
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
by:
Jason Fried
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,710 ratings 45. 
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
by:
Laszlo Bock
4.13 avg rating — 16,175 ratings 47. 
Drop the Pink Elephant: 15 Ways to Say What You Mean...and Mean What You Say
by:
Bill McFarlan
3.84 avg rating — 269 ratings 
49. 
Effective Devops: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale
by:
Jennifer Davis
3.41 avg rating — 289 ratings 50. 
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
by:
Jim Loehr
3.98 avg rating — 15,508 ratings 
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The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
by:
Pete Blaber
4.33 avg rating — 5,727 ratings 55. 
Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
by:
Luis Gonçalves
3.81 avg rating — 166 ratings 56. 
Deploying Rails: Automate, Deploy, Scale, Maintain, and Sleep at Night
by:
Tom Copeland
3.45 avg rating — 60 ratings 
56. 
Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites
by:
Martin L. Abbott
3.98 avg rating — 243 ratings 56. 
Pro Website Development and Operations: Streamlining DevOps for large-scale websites
by:
Matthew Sacks
3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings 56. 
Automation and Monitoring with Hubot for DevOps and Developers
by:
Tomas Varaneckas
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings 
56. 
Architecting for Scale: High Availability for Your Growing Applications
by:
Lee Atchison
3.57 avg rating — 228 ratings 56. 
Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes: Building, Deploying, and Scaling Modern Applications in the Cloud
by:
John Arundel
4.26 avg rating — 226 ratings 56. 
Beyond The Phoenix Project: The Origins and Evolution Of DevOps (Official Transcript of The Audio Series)
by:
Gene Kim
4.11 avg rating — 416 ratings 
67. 
Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale 4.17 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The LSP Method: How to Engage People and Spark Insights Using the LEGO® Serious Play® Method
by:
Michael Fearne
4.56 avg rating — 61 ratings 74. 
Improv-ing Agile Teams: Using Constraints to Unlock Creativity
by:
Paul Goddard
3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings 75. 
lego4scrum: A complete guide. A great way to teach the Scrum framework and Agile thinking
by:
Alexey Krivitsky
3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings 
78. 
Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA: Design and manage software projects using the Agile methodology
by:
David Harned
2.64 avg rating — 11 ratings 81. 
iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
by:
Steve Wozniak
3.85 avg rating — 17,359 ratings 81. 
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
by:
Mike Rother
4.19 avg rating — 1,871 ratings 83. 
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
by:
Jim Collins
4.11 avg rating — 21,290 ratings 83. 
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Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development
by:
Corey Ladas
3.70 avg rating — 260 ratings 
86. 
Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success
by:
Josh Seiden
4.33 avg rating — 1,708 ratings 
90. 
Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
by:
Teresa Torres
4.45 avg rating — 4,392 ratings 
91. 
The OKRs Field Book: A Step-by-Step Guide for Objectives and Key Results Coaches
by:
Ben Lamorte
4.45 avg rating — 111 ratings 
93. 
Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems
by:
Ryan Ripley
4.32 avg rating — 122 ratings 95. 
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
by:
Gene Kranz
4.30 avg rating — 10,163 ratings 
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The Toyota Way to Service Excellence: Lean Transformation in Service Organizations
by:
Jeffrey K. Liker
4.18 avg rating — 116 ratings 98. 
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The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From the World's Greatest Manufacturer
by:
Jeffrey K. Liker
4.08 avg rating — 11,147 ratings