Yes. This is only one of these "must-read book list", what you can do is search several of them and see which ones are quoted by almost everyone! About "every

Yes. This is only one of these "must-read book list", what you can do is search several of them and see which ones are quoted by almost everyone! About "everything" I would rate the following books very highly, for their sheer usefulness: - Thinking Fast and Slow (really do the exercises!) - then Neuroleadership which describes the purpose of brain structures, it's somehow wider than kahneman - A Mind for Numbers (include very useful data points for knowledge workers) - Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism About programming I would rate the following books highly, but at the same time it seems a bit fruitless to me to read about programming, rather than spending more time reading about psychology or sociology: - the Economics of Software Quality - Peopleware - Pragmatic programmer - Mythical Man month ^you'll see that these books are hardly kept secret, it's just that people quote them but don't actually read them, or so it seems.