Support women-authored tech books
Looking for a gift for the designer or developer in your life? How about supporting women authors while you're at it? Here is a non-comprehensive list of great women in tech-authored books. Most have print and digital versions available, and I listed the prices that I could find at the time of this writing.
Front-End
CSS Secrets by Lea Verou ($33.99 digital, $43.99 print + digital)
Going Responsive by Karen McGrane ($22.50 print + digital)
Front-end Style Guides by Anna Debenham ($2.99 Kindle)
Lean Websites by Barbara Bermes ($4.29 print)
JavaScript Cookbook by Shelley Powers ($42.99 digital, $54.99 print + digital)
I wrote Designing for Performance ($26 digital, $33 print + digital). All proceeds are donated to various charities focused on supporting underrepresented people in tech.
User Experience
A Web for Everyone by Sarah Horton & Whitney Quesenbery ($39 print + digital)
Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra ($23 print)
Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy by Cindy Alvarez ($20 print)
Colour Accessibility by Geri Coady (£3.00 digital)
Programming
Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz ($32 print)
Living Clojure by Carin Meier ($31.99 digital, $43.99 print + digital)
Head First Java by Kathy Sierra ($27 print)
Exercises in Programming Style by Cristina Videira Lopes ($38 print)
Geocoding on Rails by Laila Winner and Josh Clayton ($29 digital)
Definitive XML Schema by Priscilla Walmsley ($56 print)
How Do Calculators Even Zine by Amy Wibowo ($15 print, $8 digital)
Learning Node by Shelley Powers ($29.99 ebook)
Hello Web App by Tracy Osborn (digital + print: $29.95)
Sysadmin
Linux Networking Cookbook by Carla Schroder ($35.99 digital, $49.49 print + digital)
Unix Shells by Example by Ellie Quigley ($38 print)
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth and others ($53 print)
Essential System Administration by Æleen Frisch ($38 print)
MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition by Kristina Chodorow ($33.99 digital, $43.99 print + digital)
Introduction to Linux by Machtelt Garrels ($35 print)
How Does The Internet Zine by Amy Wibowo ($15 print, $8 digital)
Algorithms & Data Structures
Distributed Algorithms by Nancy Lynch ($140 print, $72 Kindle)
Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms by Loiane Groner ($45 print)
Probabilistic Graphical Models by Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman ($110 print)
Content Strategy, Information Architecture
Content Strategy for Mobile by Karen McGrane ($22.50 print + digital)
Content Everywhere by Sara Wachter-Boettcher ($39 print + digital)
How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody by Abby Covert ($20 print)
Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose (Voices That Matter) by Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee ($19 print)
Just Enough Research by Erika Hall ($22.50 print + digital)
Design
Designing for the Digital Age by Kim Goodwin ($37 print)
Design for Kids by Debra Levin Gelman ($39 print + digital)
Geometry of Design Kimberly Elam ($13 print)
Web Design in a Nutshell by Jennifer Robbins ($32 digital, $44 print + digital)
Designing Connected Products by Claire Rowland, Elizabeth Goodman, Martin Charlier, Ann Light, Alfred Lui ($43 digital, $55 print + digital)
Games or Native Apps
Game Localization by Minako O'Hagan and Carmen Mangiron ($54 print)
iOS on Rails by Diana Zmuda and Jessie Young ($39 digital)
The Gourmet iOS Developer's Cookbook: Even More Recipes for Better iOS App Development by Erica Sadun ($29 print, $18 Kindle)
I co-wrote the book Building a Device Lab with another great woman in tech, Destiny Montague. (£3.00 digital)
Hardware
Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols by Radia Perlman ($61 print)
JavaScript Robotics: Building NodeBots with Johnny-Five, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and BeagleBone more than half authors are non-male-identifying ($23 print)
Mastering mental ray: Rendering Techniques for 3D and CAD Professionals by Jennifer O'Connor (rent print from $15)
Literal Twitter Bot Zine by Amy Wibowo ($15 print, $8 digital)
Tech Industry
Effective DevOps by Jennifer Davis and Katherine Daniels (Early Release digital $29.99)
Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age by Virginia Eubanks ($18 print)
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows ($12 print)
Founders at Work by Jessica Livingstone ($13 print)
Git for Teams by Emma Jane Hogbin Westby ($42.99 digital, $54.99 print + digital)
Managing Chaos by Lisa Welchman $39 print + digital
Practical Empathy by Indi Young ($39 print + digital)
Lean Branding by Laura Busche ($26 digital, $33 print + digital)
Looking for a gift for a young adult in your life? Check out Brave New Girls: Tales of Girls and Gadgets, a collection of sci-fi stories featuring brainy young heroines. All revenues from sales of this anthology will be donated to a scholarship fund through the Society of Women Engineers. (I wrote the foreword!) ($14 print)
Additionally, here's a whole list from O'Reilly in honor of the most recent Ada Lovelace Day.