Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer?

Read books you'll never find a job with, like SICP.

dune

Meditations

The already mentioned The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition is so far the best I have read.

"The Pragmatic Programmer" has a 20th Anniversary Edition.

books like Pragmatic Programmer

The top book imho is The Pragmatic Programer.

designing data intensive applications

The main thing I learned from this book was about LSMs

Seconding. This book will get you hired.

Designing Data Intensive Applications is a great book.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Designing Data Intensive Applications

Code Complete

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

lord of the rings

Mythical Man Month

A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout

A philosophy of..

A Philosophy of Software Design is very good. Not the whole of it but it’s short and to the point.

"A Philosophy of Software Design" by Stanford's John Ousterhout is excellent.

A Philosophy of Software Design

A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout

I still recommend it to people but with the caveat that they need to think about what aspects from it they adopt

I also love Clean Code and think it unfairly gets a bad rap

Clean code is great.

some of the advice in the book is simply dated

Clean Code was instrumental in my improvement as an engineer.

harry potter