Programming Reading List

Credits to /u/CSMastermind for creating the list found here:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

More reading list resources:

• The Ultimate Reading List for Developers

Job Interview Prep

• Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
• Programming Interviews Exposed: Coding Your Way Through the Interview
• Introduction to Algorithms
• The Algorithm Design Manual
• Effective Java
• Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Pattern
• Modern Operating Systems
• Programming Pearls
• Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists

Junior Software Engineer Reading List

Read This First

• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

Fundamentals

• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
• Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
• Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software
• Perfect Software: And Other Illusions about Testing
• Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application

Understanding Professional Software Environments

• Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game
• Software Project Survival Guide
• The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
• Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Teams
• Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Mentality

• Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
• Against Method
• The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development

History

• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
• Computing Calamities: Lessons Learned from Products, Projects, and Companies That Failed
• The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management

Mid Level Software Engineer Reading List

Read This First

• Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth

Fundamentals

• The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• Solid Code
• Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code
• Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
• Writing Solid Code

Software Design

• Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
• Domain-Driven Design Distilled
• Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
• Design Patterns in C# - Even though this is specific to C# the pattern can be used in any OO language.
• Refactoring to Patterns

Software Engineering Skill Sets

• Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
• Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools
• NoEstimates: How To Measure Project Progress Without Estimating
• Object-Oriented Software Construction
• The Art of Software Testing
• Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• Test Driven Development: By Example

Databases

• Database System Concepts
• Database Management Systems
• Foundation for Object / Relational Databases: The Third Manifesto
• Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
• Data Access Patterns: Database Interactions in Object-Oriented Applications

User Experience

• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
• The Design of Everyday Things
• Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
• User Interface Design for Programmers
• GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos

Mentality

• The Productive Programmer
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
• Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
• Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

History

• Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
• New Turning Omnibus: 66 Excursions in Computer Science
• Hacker's Delight
• The Alchemist
• Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

Specialist Skills

In spite of the fact that many of these won't apply to your specific job I still recommend reading them for the insight, they'll give you into programming language and technology design.

• Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC
• Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rules for C and C++ Programming
• The C++ Programming Language
• Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
• More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
• More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#
• CLR via C#
• Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java
• Thinking in Java
• JUnit in Action
• Functional Programming in Scala
• The Art of Prolog: Advanced Programming Techniques
• The Craft of Prolog
• Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting
• Dive into Python 3
• why's (poignant) guide to Ruby

Senior Level Software Engineer Reading List

Read This First

• Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

Fundamentals

• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
• Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML
• Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
• Rework
• Writing Secure Code
• Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries

Development Theory

• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications
• Introduction to Functional Programming
• Design Concepts in Programming Languages
• Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective
• Modern Operating Systems
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
• The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Philosophy of Programming

• Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
• Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
• The Elements of Programming Style
• A Discipline of Programming
• The Practice of Programming
• Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
• Object Thinking
• How to Solve It by Computer
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

Mentality

• Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
• The Intentional Stance
• Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine
• The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
• The Timeless Way of Building
• The Soul Of A New Machine
• WIZARDRY COMPILED
• YOUTH
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Software Engineering Skill Sets

• Software Tools
• UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language
• Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development
• Practical Parallel Programming
• Past, Present, Parallel: A Survey of Available Parallel Computer Systems
• Mastering Regular Expressions
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C
• Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book
• The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
• SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design
• Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques
• Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and more.

Design

• The Psychology Of Everyday Things
• About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
• Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
• The Non-Designer's Design Book

History

• Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality
• Death March
• Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
• The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times * and Bad
• In the Beginning...was the Command Line

Specialist Skills

• The Art of UNIX Programming
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
• Programming Windows
• Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
• Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals
• lex & yacc
• The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference
• C Programming Language
• No Bugs!: Delivering Error Free Code in C and C++
• Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied
• Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
• Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit

DevOps Reading List

• Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart
• The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services
• The Practice of System and Network Administration: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT
• Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale
• DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective
• The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
• Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry
• Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
• Migrating Large-Scale Services to the Cloud

Entrepreneur Reading List

• Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
• The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
• Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers
• Ikigai
• Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
• Bootstrap: Lessons Learned Building a Successful Company from Scratch
• The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time
• Content Rich: Writing Your Way to Wealth on the Web
• The Web Startup Success Guide
• The Best of Guerrilla Marketing: Guerrilla Marketing Remix
• From Program to Product: Turning Your Code into a Saleable Product This Little Program Went to Market: Create, Deploy, Distribute, Market, and Sell Software and More on the Internet at * Little or No Cost to You
• The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
• The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
• Startups Open Sourced: Stories to Inspire and Educate
• In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
• Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite * Your Business
• Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
• Eric Sink on the Business of Software
• Words that Sell: More than 6000 Entries to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas
• Anything You Want
• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
• Tao Te Ching
• Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
• The Tao of Programming
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
• The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

Computer Science Grad School Reading List

• All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
• Introductory Linear Algebra: An Applied First Course
• Introduction to Probability
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
• Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
• What Is This Thing Called Science?
• The Art of Computer Programming
• The Little Schemer
• The Seasoned Schemer
• Data Structures Using C and C++
• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
• How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing
• A Science of Operations: Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming
• Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology
• The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
• The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
• Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory
• How To Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
• Types and Programming Languages
• Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Elementary Algorithms
• Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Mathematical Methods
• Commonsense Reasoning
• Using Language
• Computer Vision
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Video Game Development Reading List

• Game Programming Gems - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
• AI Game Programming Wisdom - 1 2 3 4
• Making Games with Python and Pygame
• Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python
• Bit by Bit