You saved me a comment, none of the books in OP are really 'must read' and most of them are about project management methodology, not programming. I was going

You saved me a comment, none of the books in OP are really 'must read' and most of them are about project management methodology, not programming. I was going to add to what you said with a link to a specific former thread I remember that was good, and it caused me to stumble onto a new feature in Google that I haven't seen before and which is most excellent. If you google for: site:news.ycombinator.com programming books You get a summary with covers and links to Google Books of the most-mentioned books on HN. Link to the search result page: https://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+programming+books https://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&newwindow... Image link incase you don't see it on your Google: https://img.skitch.com/20120820-g8phi24s3ngq7khyimq5wqnabg.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20120820-g8phi24s3ngq7khyimq5wqnabg.j...