Top 13 Books Every Programmer Should Read

• Anything from Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• Clear Code
• Pragmatic Programmer
• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
• Grokking Algorithms
• Clean Agile: Back to Basics
• Code Complete
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
• Design Patterns — Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• The Mythical Man-Month
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
• Rapid Development
• Refactoring — Improving the Design of Existing Code

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