Start with high-confidence data science books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Software Engineering for Data Scientists
Catherine Nelson
SQL for Data Scientists
Renee M. P. Teate
Data Science for Dummies
Lillian Pierson
Data Science for Business
Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett
Data Science at the Command Line
Jeroen Janssens
Introducing Data Science
Davy Cielen, Arno Meysman
Python Tools for Scientists
Lee Vaughan
