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Hello *,

I am constantly interested in reading interesting software development or design books. I think this post could be a great source to share opinions on books currently read by users. Especially I would be interested to know if the book is worth buying/reading and what is the summary in the user own words (pretty short mini-review).

My special areas of interest are:

  • Patterns
  • Networking
  • large scale software design
  • concurrency
  • high performance software
  • high availability software
  • embedded

Thanks,
Ovanes

P.S. I hope this post is not subjective, because it is pretty hard to find user opinions on newcomer books and find newcomer books at all.

+1  A: 

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

rahul
+1 a must read
dfa
which one is a must read?
yeyeyerman
if you are reading them all at the moment (as the question goes), you have a serious ADD :)
Roman Plášil
All of these are must read books. I didn't mean reading all at the moment. Provided only a list of books found useful.
rahul
my question went to dfa comment
yeyeyerman
A: 

Rapid Development - Steve McConnell

Max