The article is titled: Five Books that Changed My Career as a Software Engineer The operative words being "My Career". The article is a subjective listing of b

The article is titled: Five Books that Changed My Career as a Software Engineer The operative words being "My Career". The article is a subjective listing of books that the author found to be useful in their career and at the stage of their career they read them. Not an edict of what every SWE needs to read to progress in their career. I have read 1 of the 4 books on your list (and read another partially) and haven't found them to be remotely helpful in my career progression. They may have huge impact on someone else at another stage of their career, that is the point of lists like these.