At 80beans we love to read about business, development and design. Below is an incomplete list of the books we have at the office. We’ll try to write some stuff about them over time and do some categorization. All books are in English unless stated otherwise.

Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date by Robert X. Cringely

Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson

Ambient Findability by Peter Morville

Artful Making by Robert Austin & Lee Devin

Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications by Patrick Lenz

Bulletproof Web Design by D. Cederholm

Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by A. Budd

Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices by Dan Saffer

Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell

Designing with Web Standards by J. Zeldman

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by S. Krug

DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model by J. Keith

Essential ActionScript 2.0 by C. Moock

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury & Bruce Patton

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers by Steve Souders

HTML Mastery: Semantics, Standards, and Styling by Paul Haine

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville

Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 by John Allsopp

ppk on JavaScript by P. Koch

Prioritizing Web Usability by J. Nielsen

Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns by Michael Bowers

Pro CSS Techniques by J. Croft

Pro JavaScript Techniques by John Resig

Projectmanagement by R. Grit (NL)

Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird

Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke & Molly E. Holzschlag

Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee

Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance by Andrew Kirkpatrick

Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software by Susan Fowler & Victor Stanwick

Web Design: Studios by J. Wiedemann

Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with XHTML, CSS, and DOM Scripting by Andy Budd

Web Standards Solutions by D. Cederholm

Website Usability by W. van der Put (NL)



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