11 booksSoftware Engineering Title Author Difficulty Priority 500 Lines or Less AOSA Project Advanced medium Beautiful Code Oram & Wilson (eds.) Advanced medium Clean Code Robert C. Martin Intermediate high Code Complete Steve McConnell Intermediate high How to Design Programs Felleisen et al. Intermediate high Programming Pearls Jon Bentley Intermediate high Site Reliability Engineering Beyer, Jones, Petoff & Murphy Intermediate high Software Engineering at Google Winters, Manshreck & Wright Intermediate high The Art of Writing Efficient Programs Fedor Pikus Advanced medium The Coding Career Handbook Shawn Wang Beginner high The Pragmatic Programmer Andrew Hunt & David Thomas Intermediate high