Books

Job Interview Prep

• Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
• Programming Interviews Exposed: Coding Your Way Through the Interview
• Introduction to Algorithms
• The Algorithm Design Manual
• Effective Java
• Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Pattern
• Modern Operating Systems
• Programming Pearls
• Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists

Junior Software Engineer Reading List

Read This First

• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

Fundementals

• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
• Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
• Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software
• Perfect Software: And Other Illusions about Testing
• Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application
• Understanding Professional Software Environments
• Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game
• Software Project Survival Guide
• The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
• Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Teams
• Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Mentality

• Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
• Against Method
• The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development

History

• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
• Computing Calamities: Lessons Learned from Products, Projects, and Companies That Failed
• The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management

Mid Level Software Engineer Reading List

Read This First

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
• Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth

Fundementals

• The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• Solid Code
• Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code
• Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
• Writing Solid Code

Software Design

• Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
• Domain-Driven Design Distilled
• Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
• Design Patterns in C# - Even though this is specific to C# the pattern can be used in any OO language.
• Refactoring to Patterns

Software Engineering Skill Sets

• Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
• Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools
• NoEstimates: How To Measure Project Progress Without Estimating
• Object-Oriented Software Construction
• The Art of Software Testing
• Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• Test Driven Development: By Example

Databases

• Database System Concepts
• Database Management Systems
• Foundation for Object / Relational Databases: The Third Manifesto
• Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
• Data Access Patterns: Database Interactions in Object-Oriented Applications

User Experience

• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
• The Design of Everyday Things
• Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
• User Interface Design for Programmers
• GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos

Mentality

• The Productive Programmer
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
• Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
• Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

History

• Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
• New Turning Omnibus: 66 Excursions in Computer Science
• Hacker's Delight
• The Alchemist
• Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

Specialist Skills

In spite of the fact that many of these won't apply to your specific job I still recommend reading them for the insight, they'll give you into programming language and technology design.

• Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC
• Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rules for C and C++ Programming
• The C++ Programming Language
• Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
• More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
• More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#
• CLR via C#
• Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java
• Thinking in Java
• JUnit in Action
• Functional Programming in Scala
• The Art of Prolog: Advanced Programming Techniques
• The Craft of Prolog
• Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting
• Dive into Python 3
• why's (poignant) guide to Ruby

Computer Science Grad School Reading List

• All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
• Introductory Linear Algebra: An Applied First Course
• Introduction to Probability
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
• Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
• What Is This Thing Called Science?
• The Art of Computer Programming
• The Little Schemer
• The Seasoned Schemer
• Data Structures Using C and C++
• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
• How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing
• A Science of Operations: Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming
• Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology
• The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
• The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
• Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory
• How To Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
• Types and Programming Languages
• Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Elementary Algorithms
• Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Mathematical Methods
• Commonsense Reasoning
• Using Language
• Computer Vision
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid