These are some of my favourite books from the last few years. They have helped me with various aspects for my life, job, and career.

Development

	Bridging the Communication Gap by Gojko Adzic An excellent guide to using acceptance test driven development and specification by example to improve communication and help build the right product.
	Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck The seminal explanation of Extreme Programming (XP), including the problems it addresses, its fundamental philosophies, and how these philsophies can be implemented in software development organization.
	Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash by Mary and Tom Poppendieck A highly readable description of lean software development, with an abundance of guides and tips for figuring out how to apply the principles to increase the effectiveness of your teams

Change and Motivation

	Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (Pragmatic Programmers) by Esther Derby and Diane Larsen Countless tips and exercises designed to provide structure and flow to your retrospectives. Almost everything in here is obvious but you probably don’t realize it until you see it all in one place. An excellent resource.
	Drive: Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Dan Pink In knowledge worker industries, extrinsic motivations such as monetary rewards can reduce what people can accomplish.  Instead, we need to consider three simple things that truly motivate people: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
	Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath An investigation into why some ideas stick better than others, with a discussion of six qualities of ideas that can increase their stickiness.
	Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath Change is hard because there is conflict between the rational side of your mind that understands why a change is necessary and the emotional side of your mind that is comfortable with the current situation. There are paths to resolve this conflict and allow change to occur.

Management and Entrepreneurship

	Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup by David Cohen and Brad Feld A compendium of short discussions on what you will encounter in an early-stage startup and advice that can help you to handle these situations.
	The Lean Startup by Eric Ries A significant contribution of ideas about how to improve capital efficiency in startups and more deeply engage employees and customers to create tighter learning and feedback loops.

General Interest

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell An anecdotal and scientific investigation into whether initial impressions are helpful or hindering.  Packed with examples, it includes tips on when to recognize which situation is which.