Books to buy

http://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineering-Design-Practice-Applied/dp/1439851689

http://www.amazon.com/Software-Development-Principles-Patterns-Practices/dp/0135974445

http://www.amazon.com/Framework-Design-Guidelines-Conventions-Libraries/dp/0321545613

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Business-Process-Modeling-Michael/dp/0596008430

http://www.amazon.com/Core-JavaServer-Faces-3rd-Edition/dp/0137012896

http://www.amazon.com/Expert-One-Design-Development-Programmer/dp/0764543857

http://www.amazon.com/Harnessing-Hibernate-James-Elliott/dp/0596517726 - ebook

http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-PL-SQL-Programming-Versions/dp/0596514468 - ebook

http://www.amazon.com/Generative-Programming-Methods-Tools-Applications/dp/0201309777

http://www.amazon.com/The-Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master/dp/020161622X - ebook

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Generation-Action-Jack-Herrington/dp/1930110979

http://www.amazon.com/Hierarchies-Smarties-Kaufmann-Management-Systems/dp/0123877334/ ebook

http://www.amazon.com/Information-Modeling-Relational-Databases-Management/dp/0123735688 - ebook

http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-2nd-Edition/dp/0131103628 -ebook

http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-ColdFusion-Application-Construction-Volume/dp/032166034X/ref=dp_ob_title_bk ebook

Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion ebook

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Microsoft-Visual-Basic-2008/dp/0324786247

Programming Windows - pdf avail

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-PowerShell-VBScript-JScript-Bible/dp/0470386800 - ebook

Server-Based Java Programming ebook on manning site

"Java Threads" by Oaks/Wong or "Java Concurrency in Practice" by Brian Goetz

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-JavaScript-DOM-Scripting-Ajax/dp/1590596803 - ebook

Damian Conway's books

http://www.amazon.com/Bitter-EJB-Bruce-Tate/dp/1930110952

http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Enterprise-Java-Ted-Neward/dp/0321130006

http://www.amazon.com/Test-Driven-JavaScript-Development-Developers-Library/dp/0321683919 -ebook avail

http://www.the-mobile-book.com/  ebook avail

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-ASP-NET-Security-Membership-Management/dp/0764596985

http://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Patterns-Designing-Maintainable-Desktop/dp/032161853X

http://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Complete-Dimensional/dp/0471200247 ebook avail

http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Phone-Unleashed-Daniel-Vaughan/dp/0672333481 ebook avail

http://www.amazon.com/Debugging-Microsoft-NET-2-0-Applications/dp/0735622027/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241959415&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-LOB-Development-Silverlight-Action/dp/1849683549/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360344517&sr=1-1&keywords=1849683549 - ebook avail

Programming C# 

http://www.amazon.com/Pro-ADO-NET-2-0-Experts-Voice/dp/1590595122

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-WCF-Services-Juval-Lowy/dp/0596521308

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Microsoft-SharePoint-Workflow-Programming/dp/0470402512

http://www.amazon.com/XNA-3D-Primer-Wrox-Blox/dp/B003A6RCES

http://www.amazon.com/XNA-Game-Programming-Recipes-Problem-Solution/dp/143021855X

http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Apex-Programming-Salesforce-com-Force-com/dp/1936754053

http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-Graphic-Design-Architecture/dp/1581152507

http://www.amazon.com/WPF-4-Unleashed-Adam-Nathan/dp/0672331195

http://www.amazon.com/CLR-via-C-Jeffrey-Richter/dp/0735627045

http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-Edition-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0321356683 - ebook

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-NET-Components-2nd-Edition/dp/0596102070

Books by Allen Holub

http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882

http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Architecture-Agile-Software-Development/dp/0470684208

Brownfield Application Development in .NET

http://www.amazon.com/Release-Production-Ready-Software-Pragmatic-Programmers/dp/0978739213/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Head-First-Design-Patterns-Freeman/dp/0596007124/

http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complexity-Software/dp/0321125215

http://www.amazon.com/ASP-Net-MVC-Action-Jeffrey-Palermo/dp/1933988622 

http://www.amazon.com/Applying-Domain-Driven-Design-Patterns-Examples/dp/0321268202

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1590597745 - Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UMLTheory and Practice

http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Language-Buildings-Construction-Environmental/dp/0195019199

http://www.manning.com/crichardson/ - POJOs in Action

http://manning.com/ghosh/ - DSLs in Action

http://www.manning.com/skeet2/ - C# in Depth, Second Edition

http://www.scribd.com/doc/87578792/117/basket-Domain-model

http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052

http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Software-Construction-CD-ROM-Edition/dp/0136291554

http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Programming/dp/1430219483

http://www.amazon.com/Social-Life-Information-Seely-Brown/dp/0875847625

http://www.amazon.com/Object-Thinking-DV-Microsoft-Professional-David/dp/0735619654

http://www.amazon.com/Applying-UML-Patterns-Introduction-Object-Oriented/dp/0130925691

http://www.amazon.com/xUnit-Test-Patterns-Refactoring-Code/dp/0131495054

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145341907.do C++® AMP

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201485672 - Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

Microsoft® Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition (Patterns & Practices) 

http://www.amazon.com/C-Primer-Plus-5th-Edition/dp/0672326973


http://www.amazon.com/Reliable-software-through-composite-design/dp/0884052842

http://www.amazon.com/Composite-Structured-Design-Glenford-Myers/dp/0442805845

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Construction/dp/0735619670

http://www.amazon.com/Software-Development-Principles-Patterns-Practices/dp/0135974445

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Covering-Microsoft-Development/dp/0321741765/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Patterns-Joshua-Kerievsky/dp/0321213351 

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Windows%C2%AE-Edition-Microsoft-Series/dp/157231995X - the original (and for many readers, the definitive) book on Windows API programming

http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Oriented-Software-Architecture-Volume-Patterns/dp/0471958697 - get all five volumes

http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Integration-Patterns-Designing-Deploying/dp/0321200683 - see writeup on Message Endpoint

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?MythicalManMonth 

 http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Service-Bus-David-Chappell/dp/0596006756

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Theory-Communication-Claude-Shannon/dp/0252725468 

http://www.amazon.com/Sequential-Machines-Automata-Theory-Taylor/dp/047108848X

http://www.amazon.com/Expert-VB-2008-Business-Objects/dp/1430216387

http://www.amazon.com/Moving-VB-NET-Strategies-Concepts/dp/159059102X (by Dan Appleman, VB/Win32 "Guru")

http://www.amazon.com/LINQ-Objects-Using-4-0-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321637003

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Outlook-2007-Programming-Programmer/dp/0470049944

http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-SQL-Stephane-Faroult/dp/0596008945

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Web-Applications-Alex-MacCaw/dp/144930351X -ebook

http://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Tools-Edition/dp/0321486811/ -don't buy ebook (see comments)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Ruby-Way-Second-Edition/dp/0672328844 ebook

http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Structures-Strategies-Complex/dp/0321545893

http://www.amazon.com/Temporal-Relational-Kaufmann-Management-Systems/dp/1558608559

http://www.amazon.com/Object-Thinking-DV-Microsoft-Professional-David/dp/0735619654

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-NET-Volume-Language-Runtime/dp/0201734117

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Object-Oriented-Modeling-Bran-Selic/dp/0471599174

 Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach

http://www.amazon.com/XDoclet-Action-In-Rickard-Oberg/dp/1932394052

http://www.amazon.com/Ant-Developers-Handbook-Alan-Williamson/

http://www.amazon.com/Harnessing-Java-Comprehensive-Approach-Learning/dp/1463767714 - $7 ebook

http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/098478280X

http://www.amazon.com/Publish-Subscribe-Systems-Design-Principles/dp/1119951542

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Database-Knowledge-Base-Systems-Vol/dp/0716781581 - and vol 2 is recommended

http://www.amazon.com/Service-Oriented-Architecture-SOA-Concepts-Technology/dp/0131858580

http://www.amazon.com/The-Definitive-ANTLR-4-Reference/dp/1934356999

http://www.amazon.com/Java-Persistence-Hibernate-Christian-Bauer/dp/1932394885

https://pragprog.com/book/vslg2/programming-groovy-2

http://www.amazon.com/The-Phoenix-Project-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592

http://www.amazon.com/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/1449377440