Hmm. My picks would be very different, aside from 'The Pragmatic Programmer', which is worth reading early in your career.<p>Leo Brodie, 'Thinking Forth'<p>Roland, 'Program Construction'<p>Ullman, 'Elements of ML Programming'<p>De Marco, 'The Deadline'<p>Brooks, 'The Mythical Man-Month'<p>Skiena, 'The Algorithm Design Manual'<p>Hunt, 'The Pragmatic Programmer'<p>Stevens, 'Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment'<p>Stevens, 'TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1'<p>Ross Anderson, 'Security Engineering'<p>Also, the Phoenix Project is a ripoff of Goldratt's 'The Goal.' I suggest reading Goldratt instead, and then think very carefully about what transfers from manufacturing to software.