Occasionally people ask me to recommend programming books. I usually end up giving them whatever subset of the following list I can remember at the time.

The following list contains books or websites which I think everyone really ought to read and which I have already read. If you're looking for a list of classic texts or definitive works then I strongly recommend you visit Canonical Tomes.

Web Javascript, the definitive reference, David Flanagan WDVL: Javascript tutorial for programmers Object orientation Understanding object-oriented programming with java by Timothy A. Budd Object oriented technology: a managers guide by David A. Taylor Ph.D. Object Oriented Design Heuristics by Arthur J. Riel Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans General The psychology of computer programming by Gerald M Weinberg The mythical man month by Fred Brooks The pragmatic programmer by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas Code complete by Steve McConnell Facts and fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass Waltzing with bears by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister The logic of failure by Dietrich Dorner