I read The Software Developer's Career Handbook: A Guide to Navigating Career Uncertainty.
This book on the software developer's career is by Michael Lopp (Rands), known for Being Geek and Managing Humans. With his characteristic perspective, he talks about the situations everyone runs into over a career—changing jobs, getting promoted, dealing with managers, and how to carry yourself in meetings and on chat.
The backbone of the book is treating a career not as a straight staircase but as the ongoing act of moving through uncertainty. Rather than imposing right answers, it offers questions for judgment and ways of observing, so you can read it against your own situation.
The narration has a bit of a quirk to it, but it carries the felt sense of someone who has watched the field for years as a manager, and it makes you want to reread it now and then. Opening it when you feel lost or stalled in your career seems likely to help you organize your perspective.
