Man-Month is great book. Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained is the second one. But those are mostly about management of software projects. If you want t

Man-Month is great book. Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained is the second one. But those are mostly about management of software projects. If you want to learn how to write good code you probably should read about how to write short stories and even Dale Carnegie's Speaking For Success. They are really useful.