To-Read for Programmers

1.
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction 4.30 avg rating — 9,435 ratings
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master 4.33 avg rating — 23,513 ratings
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 4.47 avg rating — 4,821 ratings
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The C Programming Language
The C Programming Language 4.44 avg rating — 11,167 ratings
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Introduction to Algorithms
Introduction to Algorithms 4.35 avg rating — 9,239 ratings
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software 4.19 avg rating — 11,823 ratings
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code 4.24 avg rating — 8,765 ratings
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering 4.01 avg rating — 14,862 ratings
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set
The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set 4.74 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools 4.10 avg rating — 3,005 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,683 ratings
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship 4.36 avg rating — 22,976 ratings
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Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs 4.40 avg rating — 3,339 ratings
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More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs 4.33 avg rating — 1,069 ratings
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software 4.40 avg rating — 10,330 ratings
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Programming Pearls
Programming Pearls 4.20 avg rating — 3,209 ratings
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Working Effectively with Legacy Code 4.14 avg rating — 4,640 ratings
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams 4.14 avg rating — 9,867 ratings
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming 3.95 avg rating — 5,346 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,226 ratings
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Effective Java : Programming Language Guide
Effective Java : Programming Language Guide 4.51 avg rating — 8,020 ratings
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture 4.12 avg rating — 3,850 ratings
23.
The Little Schemer
The Little Schemer 4.29 avg rating — 1,978 ratings
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The Seasoned Schemer
The Seasoned Schemer 4.29 avg rating — 267 ratings
25.
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby 4.05 avg rating — 463 ratings
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity 3.94 avg rating — 2,938 ratings
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The Art of UNIX Programming
The Art of UNIX Programming 4.18 avg rating — 1,264 ratings
28.
Test-Driven Development: By Example
Test-Driven Development: By Example
by: Kent Beck
4.10 avg rating — 4,367 ratings
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Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf) 3.87 avg rating — 1,004 ratings
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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability 4.24 avg rating — 30,312 ratings
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Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices 4.25 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software 4.15 avg rating — 5,730 ratings
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The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday Things 4.15 avg rating — 46,466 ratings
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Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied
Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied 4.24 avg rating — 882 ratings
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The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky 3.87 avg rating — 677 ratings
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The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) 4.12 avg rating — 1,932 ratings
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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
by: Andy Hunt
4.13 avg rating — 4,364 ratings
38.
Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art 4.05 avg rating — 984 ratings
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The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development 3.94 avg rating — 4,344 ratings
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution 4.16 avg rating — 8,457 ratings
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Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation)
Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation) 4.23 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Writing Solid Code
Writing Solid Code 4.13 avg rating — 340 ratings
43.
JavaScript: The Good Parts
JavaScript: The Good Parts 4.23 avg rating — 8,655 ratings
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Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,711 ratings
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Foundations of Programming - Building Better Software
Foundations of Programming - Building Better Software 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice 4.22 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Thinking in Java
Thinking in Java 4.15 avg rating — 2,217 ratings
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The Elements Of Computing Systems: Building A Modern Computer From First Principles
The Elements Of Computing Systems: Building A Modern Computer From First Principles 4.54 avg rating — 932 ratings
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Refactoring to Patterns
Refactoring to Patterns 4.05 avg rating — 1,440 ratings
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Modern Operating Systems
Modern Operating Systems 4.15 avg rating — 2,179 ratings
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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine 4.27 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
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Things That Make Us Smart (William Patrick Book)
Things That Make Us Smart (William Patrick Book) 3.88 avg rating — 416 ratings
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The Timeless Way of Building
The Timeless Way of Building 4.37 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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The Deadline
The Deadline 4.15 avg rating — 2,524 ratings
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The C++ Programming Language
The C++ Programming Language 4.10 avg rating — 4,014 ratings
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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective 4.46 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
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Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# 4.28 avg rating — 773 ratings
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Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests 4.19 avg rating — 2,456 ratings
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Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries
Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries 4.23 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Object Thinking
Object Thinking 3.95 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment 4.34 avg rating — 1,723 ratings
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Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age 4.05 avg rating — 9,490 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine 4.12 avg rating — 9,241 ratings
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CLR via C#
CLR via C# 4.56 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
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Design Patterns in C#
Design Patterns in C# 3.51 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 241,469 ratings
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About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design 4.07 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations 3.78 avg rating — 7,139 ratings
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The Tao of Programming
The Tao of Programming 4.08 avg rating — 303 ratings
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The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation 4.37 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing 3.90 avg rating — 77 ratings
72.
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications 3.91 avg rating — 607 ratings
73.
Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory
Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory 4.03 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages 3.91 avg rating — 442 ratings
75.
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
by: Lao Tzu
4.29 avg rating — 176,953 ratings
76.
The Productive Programmer
The Productive Programmer
by: Neal Ford
3.72 avg rating — 806 ratings
77.
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security 3.77 avg rating — 7,162 ratings
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The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World 3.21 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp 4.33 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture 4.29 avg rating — 19,678 ratings
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Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with Nunit
Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with Nunit
by: Andy Hunt
3.70 avg rating — 155 ratings
82.
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method 4.13 avg rating — 5,046 ratings
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Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation
Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation 4.74 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Writing Secure Code
Writing Secure Code 4.01 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Introduction to Functional Programming (Prentice-Hall Series in Engineering of the Physical Sciences)
Introduction to Functional Programming (Prentice-Hall Series in Engineering of the Physical Sciences) 4.09 avg rating — 88 ratings
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No Bugs!: Delivering Error-Free Code in C and C++
No Bugs!: Delivering Error-Free Code in C and C++ 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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JUnit in Action, Second Edition
JUnit in Action, Second Edition 3.53 avg rating — 128 ratings