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title: "The Books I Really Really Want"
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published: "2003-05-21T17:02:00"
updated: "2003-05-21T17:02:00"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "<Alert>Yes, I am an Amazon affiliate</Alert> How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers .NET Security Essential .NET, Volume I:…"
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# The Books I Really Really Want

By Roy Osherove May 21, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 21, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

<Alert>Yes, I am an Amazon affiliate</Alert>

[**How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316919160/iserializable-20)

[**.NET Security**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590590538/iserializable-20)

[**Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201734117/iserializable-20)

[**Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596004478/iserializable-20)

[**About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764526413/iserializable-20)

[**Programming .NET Components**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596003471/iserializable-20)

[**COM and .NET Component Services (O'Reilly Windows)**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001037/iserializable-20)

[**Streamlined Object Modeling: Patterns, Rules, and Implementation**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130668397/iserializable-20)

[**Shared Source CLI Essentials**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/059600351X/iserializable-20)

[**How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201796198/iserializable-20)

[**Pair Programming Illuminated**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201745763/iserializable-20)

[**Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321127420/iserializable-20)

[**.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067232170X/iserializable-20)

## More in .Net Original

[All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

- May 26, 2003

    ### [Microsoft Internet Controls Life Saver](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/26/microsoft-internet-controls-life-saver.html)

- May 26, 2003

    ### [Strong Vs. Loose Typing/Loose binding](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/26/strong-vs-loose-typingloose-binding.html)

- May 20, 2003

    ### [UI Threading - A Very Simple Solution](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/20/ui-threading-a-very-simple-solution.html)

- May 19, 2003

    ### [Ingo Rocks Too](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/19/ingo-rocks-too.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/