Not a book, but an article: Herb Sutter's "What's in a Class?" completely changed the way i thought about OO programming and still holds up today. <http://www.

Not a book, but an article: Herb Sutter's "What's in a Class?" completely changed the way i thought about OO programming and still holds up today. <http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill02.htm http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill02.htm> PS: plus anything by C++ guru Scott Meyers.