Ask HN: What's the best book you've read regarding software development?

The C programming language (ansi edition)

Mystical man-month and the pragmatic programmer. The former gave insight about managing a team, the other about managing yourself.

I like DDIA especially as I was always more focused on the computing logic side of software

Designing Data Intensive Applications (Martin Kleppmann) - Fantastic perspective on your application's data.

Mystical man-month and the pragmatic programmer. The former gave insight about managing a team

It's not a bad book, but it's the type of book a good list in 2025 should filter for.

Design Patterns by Erich Gamma

physical copies of both books

The Goodreads summary for Crafting Interpreters looks fascinating

Also cracked into Crafting Interpreters (was great) but got sidetracked.

highly recommend “Coders at Work”

C Programming: A Modern Approach (K N King) that I recently finished, has been great.

The book Game Programming Patterns by Robert Nystrom is a great book

Getting Real was a big influence

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Martin Fowler) - early-mid 2000s and it stays valuable to this day.