Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally?

SICP, the foundation on which my career rests.

Helped me solve some approaches to handling people in general

later, it was time for https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0...

How to win friends and influence people

reading "Thinking, Fast and Slow"

Definitely this one

I might say K&R's 2nd edition of "The C Programming Language".

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann. Absolute best book on system design.

Mythical Man Month

you definitely want to read the Phoenix project

(good reference on good principles)

"How to Solve it" was great for me from an abstract problem solving point of view.

For a non-cs book, checkout Deep Work by Cal Newport. It's been a little while since I read, but what struck me most is the mindset to avoid distractions.

The War of Art - about overcoming that nagging resistance to getting stuff done that we all feel.

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg