So, I get the idea behind this list and there are great things to cover in the books included and most of the topics are not just for .net devs, they are pretty

So, I get the idea behind this list and there are great things to cover in the books included and most of the topics are not just for .net devs, they are pretty generally applicable. I am not in the camp that you need to own books to understand topics. Read blog posts, write sample programs, cruise through stack overflow for common nuggets of wisdom. Piece things together yourself. This has mirrored my day to day practice more closely, rather than cranking through a tome in hardcopy. There are some books that are genuinely interesting reads; Code Complete, SICP etc. But not a lot of the professional development books you see (or are on this list) are worth the money. Also, not included on this list and was genuinely a book I referred to a lot when I was learning (though I now realize most of the information is available directly from microsoft) was CLR via C# by Richter.