[Year End] What was the best book you read this year?

Wow, this is an excellent question — and a hard one for me! Deep Work by Cal Newport was probably the one that made the biggest impression. It's about eliminating distractions and getting into a "flow state" that allows you to do your best work. By far the one I recommend the most to people!

I’ve read so many great books this year! It’s especially hard to narrow it down to one, but here’s a few recent mentions:

• Twelfth Night - Shakespeare, my favorite play so far, so funny and romantic
• Insight - Dr Tasha Eurich, this is a personal development book that aims to explain what self-insight is and does a really great job at helping the reader develop more of it
• Girl Decoded - Dr Rana El Kaliouby, part memoir and part tech, it’s an honest story of an amazing AI expert and leader who’s teaching computers to recognize emotions
• The Library Book - Susan Orlean, this is a non-fiction that’s all about libraries, extremely well researched with a lot of awesome stories and facts

Data & Reality by William Kent. It's a relatively old book about data modeling , but it's very enlightening!
It isn't bound to a specific technology (that's one of the points its making), so it doesn't show its age at all.

Atomic Habits! One of the most practical books I've read.

As a university student, studying Machine Learning, it's Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet. It really gave me general ideas about the workflow, metrics. It's not into math too much but just good enough for me to understand the neural network.

"Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright" . This book covers a lot on how to develop proper engineering practices making codebase sustainable and healthy.

Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

It's tough to choose, but if I have to pick one that I think was most useful (how I'm defining best), then I have to go with Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson and team. I've applied its tactics to all sorts of tough conversations (at work, technical, and personal). While I'm no means an expert and not all of those conversations went perfectly, that book has helped me be a better communicator.

Elon Musk's Biography by Ashlee Vance and The One Thing by Gary W. Keller & Jay Papasan.

So far, it has to be "The Infinite Game" by Simon Sinek.
Although making that decision is quite hard. There are so many good contenders.

Hunger games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Technical book: Eloquent javascript by Marijn Haverbeke

Loserthink by Scott Adams, which inspired me to write Don’t Say That at Work.

Wow, the title in themselves are so good, makes want to read all of these right now.. Thank-you so much.

Just started "Psychology of Money", So far so good