Books helped me

Non Technology

• How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dale Carnegie.
  A must read for anyone who wants to communicate and collaborate with people.

• Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work. Dan Heath; Chip Heath
  A practical book on improving decision making.

Technology

• Hadoop: The Definitive Guide: Storage and Analysis at Internet Scale. Tom White.
  Hadoop is not quite relevant nowadays. But this book is timeless. A great read on building a scalable distributed system.

• 凤凰架构 周志明
  Written in Chinese and free on github. This book covers many topics on how to build scalable distributed systems. More interestingly, it discusses history of technologies, what we tried, how we came up with what we use today.