The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size "Finally, a book that really does explain consciousness."
I, Robot The Three Laws of Robotics
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Transferred from a prison to a mental institution
The Screwtape Letters A conversation between two demons
The Mistborn Trilogy What if the hero of prophecy fails?
The Trial The tale of Josef K., who is suddenly arrested
The God Delusion The irrationality of belief in God
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanit
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary The story of the open source movement
Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions Get better at whiteboard coding
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change If it hurts, do it more often
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams The major issues of software are human, not technical
Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation Atomate the build, deployment, and testing process
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Rework bad designs into good ones
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests Software isn't made. It grows.
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship How and why to write clean code
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction One of the best practical guides to programming
NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence A concise but thorough introduction to NoSQL
Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas A Guide to Better Problem Solving
The Non-Designer's Design Book Basic principles of good design in a clear, simple, style