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I'd second pretty much every suggestion I've seen so far and add one "Refactoring" by Fowler. It's only really useful if you've had some design experience, but Some of the others that I really highly recommend would be "The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master". I'm of mixed feelings on Code Complete. A lot of the material I've heard better elsewhere, but I can't think of anywhere else so much material is brought together. I'd say read it but then chase down some of the citations. Some good reads but not necessarily great ones that come to mind also are: "Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software", A bit long for pretty much a common-sense point, which is log stuff, keep heartbeats going, and the like. "Agile modeling: effective practices for eXtreme programming ..." been a while since I've read this one, but it seemed a good intro. One of those books if I had too much money I'd probably purchase. "Dreaming in Code". An amusing account of software development from a reporter's perspective of some aspects of a netscape calendar project....(not quite right, but that's as close as my hazy memory will get). I've heard good things about "Beautiful Code" but haven't read it yet. If you wanted to step away a little from actual software, I'd say Donald Norman's various books are really good for ideas about usability. Lighter fare also includes Stephen Levy's books, some of Rheingold's stuff although that is a bit outdated, "What the Doormouse said.", "IWoz", "Where the Wizards Stay Up Late". I'm sure I'm missing some of the light and quick reading of computer culture, but that's plenty to get started. At some point today I'll have to figure out what books others have suggested that I still need to read (or request one of the various libraries I'm associate with purchase). Thanks for bringing up this thread ;). Jon