Living is learning. And we’re supposed to share our shit, right? So here’s a list of books I’ve read that I suggest you read too. I do not necessarily agree with everything these authors say. I add these titles here simply because I think they are worth a read. I’ve tried to sort the titles by topic, but this is not an exact science, you realize…
The links lead to the respective books at Amazon (or occasionally Swedish AdLibris. There is an experimental Amazon affiliate thing going on here as well. Just so you know.

Leadership and Management of Projects and Operations

Management Teams by R Meredith Belbin.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni.
Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point by Mary & Tom Poppendieck.
Slack by Tom DeMarco.
Leadership and the New Science by Margaret J Wheatley.
No Yelling: The 9 Secrets of Marine Corps Leadership You Must Know to Win in Business by Wally Adamchik.
The Rules of Management by Richard Templar.
The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard.
Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt.
The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management by Peter F. Drucker.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink.
Management 3.0 by Jurgen Appelo.

Product and Service Development and Production

User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn.
Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn.
Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck.
Lean Software Development by Mary & Tom Poppendieck.
Scrumban – Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development by Corey Ladas.
Managing the Design Factory by Donald G. Reinertse.
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertse.
Scrum and XP from the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg.
Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno.
Agile Excellence for Product Managers by Greg Cohen.
42 Rules of Product Management by Brian Lawley.
Inspired: How to create products customers love by Marty Cagan.
Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications by Carl Henderson.

Interaction Design, UX, Usability, IA and HCI

Emotional Design by Donald A. Norman.
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman.
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug.
Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug.
Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen.
Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen.
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Peter Morville & Louis Rosenfeld.
Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces by Carolyn Snyder.
Measuring the User Experience by Tullis & Albert.
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper.
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper.
Thoughts on Interaction Design by Jon Kolko.
Effect Managing IT by Mijo Balic and Ingrid Ottersten.
Jävla Skitsystem by Jonas Söderström.
Designing Interactive systems by David Benyon.

Web Analytics and Web Optimisation

Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions by Tim Ash.
Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity by Avinash Kaushik.

Web Site Management

Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson.
Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works by Janice Redish.

New Media & Media Studies

Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins.

Music Business

All you need to know about the Music Business by Donald S Passman.
The Music Industry – Music in the cloud by Patrik Wikström.

Business, Marketing and Startups

The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank.
Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson.
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore.
Principles of Marketing by Philip Kotler.
Do more faster by Brad Feld & David Cohen.
Getting Real by 37signals.
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson.
Free – the Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson.
What would Google do? by Jeff Jarvis
Tribes by Seth Godin.
Purple Cow by Seth Godin.
Linchpin by Seth Godin.
The entrepreneur’s guide to Customer Development by Brant Cooper & Patrick Vlaskovits.
The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time by Chris Murray.
The Lean Startyp by Eric Ries.

The Future

Futuring: The Exploration of the Future by Edward Cornish
Scenarios: The art of strategic conversation by Kees van der Heijden
Scenario Planning – The link between future and strategy  by Mats Lindgren and Hans Bandhold

Creativity and Innovation

The Art of Innovation – Lessons in Creativity from IDEO by Tom Kelly and Jonathan Littman.
The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida.
Managing Creativity and Innovation by Harvard Business School Press.
The Idea Agent by Andreas Breiler and Jonas Michanek.

Thinking and Teaching Tools – Problem Solving

Problem Solving 101 by Ken Watanabe.
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt.
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono.
Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step by Edward de Bono.
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam.
Blah-Blah-Blah: what to do when words don’t work by Dan Roam.
The Art of Problem Solving by Russell L. Ackoff.
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray

Systems Thinking

The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge.
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows.

Internet related stuff

Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky.
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki.
Content by Cory Doctorow.
The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig.
Free Ride by Robert Levine.
Cult of the amateur by Andrew Keen.

On Writing, Copywriting and Journalism

The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe.
The Gang Who Wouldn’t Write Straight by Marc Weingarten.
Write to Sell by Andy Maslen.
On Writing by Stephen King.
The Adweek Copywriting Handbook by Joseph Sugarman
Sälj det med ord by Mattias Åkerberg, Christer Wiklander.

Just plain Interesting

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Risk, The Science and Politics of Fear by Dan Gardner.
The Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford.
The Logic of Life by Tim Hartford.
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen.
Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky by Paul M. Johnson.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.
Intellectual Self Defense by Normand Baillargeon.
Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life by Steven E. Landsburg.
Nonsense, How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language by Robert J. Gula.
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer.
Use Your Head by Daniel and Jason Freeman.

Philosophy, Religion and the History of Ideas

Essays by Michel de Montaigne.
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar – Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by T. Catchcart and D.Klein.
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens.
Collected Writings: Common Sense, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine.
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca.

Funny and Clever

On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt.
Holidays in Hell by P.J O’Rourke.
On The Wealth of Nations” by P.J O’Rourke.
Peace Kills by P.J O’Rourke.
Eat the Rich by P.J O’Rourke.