Any good annotated bibliographies for IT?

Question

While answering this question on old programming books I responded about Jerry Weinberg's "The Psychology of Computer Programming" (sanitised Amazon link). Here's a quote from my answer:

I first read about it in Ed Yourdon's book "The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer" (sanitised Amazon link). Ed's book is rather dated now with it's emphasis on CASE tools, but the appendix about the programmer's bookshelf is definitely worth the purchase price, currently $0.01 for a used copy! There are quite a few books listed here that you wouldn't normally see on a programmer's bookshelf. Best thing is the accompanying text where Ed talks about why he's included the books.

I realised that I really prefer annotated bibliographies like the one in Jerry weinberg's "Perfect Software: And Other Illusions about Testing" (sanitised Amazon link) or lists like Ed Yourdon's where it's an essay describing why certain books have been listed.

Can anyone suggest good resources for IT books where they describe why a book is thought to be useful?

'Avahappy,

Edit: I've just found a really interesting bibliography in the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions" by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf (sanitised Amazon link).

Answer 1

If by 'IT' you mean Programming, then yes:

Code Complete, 2nd Edition, has bibliographies at the end of every chapter that tell you why/what the book is useful for. It's also a 'for more information', about information in the current chapter.