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It lists the titles that relate to Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Operations and Systems Thinking\n\nIf you have a suggestion for the list, then please send a PR, I would be happy to add it.\n\n### Continuous Delivery / RelEng\n\n[Continous Delivery](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912)  \n[Release It](http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0978739213)  \n[Build Quality In](https://leanpub.com/buildqualityin)  \n[Ship It](http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Successful-Software-Projects/dp/0974514047)  \n[The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit: Automating the Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Containerized Microservices](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/152391744X)\n\n### System Architecture\n[Software Architecture for Developers](https://leanpub.com/software-architecture-for-developers)  \n[Building Microservices](http://www.amazon.com/Building-Microservices-Sam-Newman/dp/1491950358/)  \n[Practice of Cloud System Administration, The: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practice-Cloud-System-Administration-Distributed/dp/032194318X)  \n[Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infrastructure-Code-Managing-Servers-Cloud/dp/1491924357)  \n\n### System administration\n\n[UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook](http://amzn.com/0133390098)   \n[Essential System Administration:Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration](http://amzn.com/0596003439)  \n[Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Production-Systems/dp/149192912X)  \n[DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices](https://www.amazon.co.uk/DevOps-Troubleshooting-Linux-Server-Practices/dp/0321832043)  \n\n### DevOps / Culture / Leadership\n[The Phoenix Project](http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0988262509)  \n[The DevOps Cookbook](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Devops-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002/)  \n[The Goal](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0566086654)  \n[Fearless Change](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fearless-Change-patterns-introducing-ideas/dp/0201741571)  \n[Crucial Conversations](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-Stakes/dp/1469266822)  \n[The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization](http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Teams-High-Performance-Organization/dp/0060522003)  \n[Out of the Crisis](http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Out-of-the-Crisis-by-W-Edwards-Deming-Paperback-2000-/231522832307)  \n[Remote: Office Not Required](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Remote-Required-David-Heinemeier-Hansson/dp/0091954673)  \n[Start With Why](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/0241958229)  \n[Leaders Eat Last](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leaders-Eat-Last-Together-Others/dp/0670923168)  \n[Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591846404/)  \n[The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition](http://www.amazon.com/High-Velocity-Edge-Operational-Excellence-Competition/dp/0071741410)  \n[Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results](http://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Kata-Managing-Improvement-Adaptiveness/dp/0071635238)  \n[Behind Closed Doors](http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Closed-Doors-Management-Programmers/dp/0976694026)  \n[Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Effective-DevOps-Building-Collaboration-Affinity/dp/1491926309)  \n\n### Web Operations\n[Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/1449377440)  \n[The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Capacity-Planning-Scaling-Resources/dp/0596518579)  \n[The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Scalability-Architecture-Organizations-Enterprise/dp/0134032802)  \n\n### Systems Thinking\n[Thinking in Systems: A Primer](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Systems-Primer-Diana-Wright/dp/1844077268)  \n[Failure Is Not An Option](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Failure-Not-Option-Thorndike-Bestsellers/dp/0425179877)  \n[The Field Guide To Understanding Human Error](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BL0OZ0E)  \n[Drift Into Failure](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1409422216)  \n[Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability](http://www.amazon.com/Just-Culture-Balancing-Safety-Accountability/dp/1409440605)  \n[The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning 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