FWIW, here are the books I bought over that years that people would always say you should read. I would say some of the principles might be out of date, wrong,

FWIW, here are the books I bought over that years that people would always say you should read. I would say some of the principles might be out of date, wrong, or overkill, but a good goal is to be at least familiar with them. The Pragmatic Programmer, Design Patterns (or some Gang of 4 book), Clean Code, Code Complete