Jeff Atwood has compiled a nice list of recommended reading for developers. “To make better software, you need to understand how people work, and that is what the books I recommend tend to focus on,” he explains. Here is the list.

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition

Steve McConnell

Amazon
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Amazon
$18.54

Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web (and Mobile) Usability

Steve Krug

Amazon
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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

Steve McConnell

Amazon
$16.28

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

Amazon
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The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

Amazon
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About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design

Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel

Amazon
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

Alan Cooper

Amazon
$19.60

Programming Pearls

Jon Bentley

Amazon
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

Andrew Hunt, David Thomas

Amazon
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Designing Web Usability

Jakob Nielsen

Amazon
$6.75

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

Amazon
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Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

Edward R. Tufte

Amazon
$15.00

Envisioning Information

Edward R. Tufte

Amazon
$25.49

Beautiful Evidence

Edward R. Tufte

Amazon
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Regular Expressions Cookbook

Jan Goyvaerts

Amazon
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Jeff Atwood is an American software developer, author, blogger, and entrepreneur. He is known for the programming blog Coding Horror, and is the co-founder of the question-and-answer website Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network. (Wikipedia.)