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Books like Refactoring
The best books like Refactoring are An Elegant Puzzle, Accelerate, and The Lean Startup. Refactoring by Martin Fowler is about software design, code quality, technical debt. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- An Elegant Puzzle
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Will Larson · Business
An Elegant Puzzle is Will Larson's guide to the craft of engineering management, written from his experience leading engineering teams at Digg, Uber, and Stripe.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Accelerate
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Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim · Business
Accelerate is the research-backed account of what actually makes software delivery teams fast without sacrificing stability.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - The Lean Startup
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Eric Ries · Business
The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Shop Class as Soulcraft
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Matthew B. Crawford · Philosophy
Shop Class as Soulcraft grew out of a paradox in its author's life: Matthew Crawford earned a PhD in political philosophy, briefly ran a Washington think tank he found soul-deadening, and then opened a motorcycle repair shop — and found the shop more intellectually alive than the office.
Both dig into craftsmanship.
Read the summary → - The Craftsman
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Richard Sennett · Sociology
The Craftsman opens with a deceptively broad definition: craftsmanship is the desire to do a job well for its own sake.
Both dig into craftsmanship.
Read the summary → - The Pragmatic Programmer
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David Thomas and Andrew Hunt · Science
The Pragmatic Programmer is David Thomas and Andrew Hunt's distillation of what separates journeyman coders from craftsmen who consistently ship good work over long careers.
Both dig into code quality.
Read the summary → - 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
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100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
Christopher Mayer · Business
Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
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7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer · Business
7 Powers is Hamilton Helmer's attempt to distill the full landscape of business strategy into a single rigorous framework.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - A World Without Email
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Cal Newport · Business
A World Without Email is Cal Newport's most targeted critique of modern knowledge work culture.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - AI Superpowers
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Kai-Fu Lee · Business
AI Superpowers is Kai-Fu Lee's argument that the geopolitical competition to lead in artificial intelligence is primarily a two-country race between the United States and China, and that the outcome will reshape the global economy in ways most people haven't started to reckon with.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - All Marketers Are Liars
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Seth Godin · Business
All Marketers Are Liars — later republished as All Marketers Tell Stories — is Seth Godin's argument that successful marketing is not about facts or features but about stories that confirm what consumers already believe about the world.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
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Frank Slootman · Business
Amp It Up is Frank Slootman's account of how he approaches leading organizations through rapid growth.
A kindred business read.
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Books like Refactoring: quick answers
What are the best books like Refactoring?
The best books like Refactoring by Martin Fowler are An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford, The Craftsman by Richard Sennett, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Refactoring, such as software design, code quality, technical debt.
What should I read after Refactoring?
A natural next read after Refactoring is An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson. A kindred business read. Other strong choices are Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford.
What books are similar to Refactoring by Martin Fowler?
Refactoring centers on software design, code quality, technical debt. Books with a similar feel include An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford, The Craftsman by Richard Sennett, The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
