I’ve just made public a beta version of my “Selenium Simplified” book.
I still have work to do on it, so I have released it as a beta book in pdf format as an ebook (e-book ?), and at a bargain price too.
This means that:

it costs much less than it will when I finish it. […]

Of the 15 names in the list I recognised just 7, so I can’t claim to have a great knowledge of great programmers. But that just seeing Donald Knuth on the list made me want to read the book. And having read it, I recommend it to you.
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One good thing about the title, it should mean that testers read the book. One bad thing about the title, other roles might not. But they should. This book provides a particularly good introduction and overview to the Agile process from a ‘test’ perspective.
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