I have been asked by lot of people over the years from the days of my teaching at RMIT and at Ericsson now, what books a programmer or a Software developer must have in his/her bookshelf. I have been thinking of this for a while and this what i have compiled. These books must be read by every developer or software engineer before writing a piece of code. I have categorized them under
1. Software Engineering, Design and Philosophy

2. Programming Skills

3. Operating Systems

4. Network (Protocol)

5. Database