Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books

If you are involved in Software Engineering, books are one of your must-have resources. With literally thousands of books on Software Engineering topics, you are faced with the good, the bad and the ugly.

To cut the chase of the bad and the ugly of Software Engineering books, here’s a very, very useful knol written by Jurgen Appelo, that list 100 best Software Engineering books.

To highlight from the 100-Software-Engineering-books list, here’s the Top 10 from the list:

1. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (2nd edition), by Steve McConnell.
2. Head First Design Patterns, by Elisabeth Freeman, etc.
3. Rapid Development, by Steve McConnell.
4. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series), by Erich Gamma.
5. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C (2nd Edition), by Bruce Schneier.
6. Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices (Alan Apt Series), by Robert C. Martin.
7. Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity, by Joel Spolsky.
8. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition), by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister.
9. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition), by Frederick P. Brooks.
10. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series), by Martin Fowler.

To read the full list of Top 100 Software Engineering books, including how Juergen determine the books’ position in the Top 100 List, please visit Jurgen’s knol.