In no particular order here are some of the books I have read related to software engineering and development. I expect this list to grow over time and for myself to provide more commentary.

In no order of preference:

General

• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
• The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers by Robert C. Martin
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
• Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford
• The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
• SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming by Bill Karwin
• Architecture Patterns with Python: Enabling Test-Driven Development, Domain-Driven Design, and Event-Driven Microservices by Harry Percival and Bob Gregory
• The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups by Gergely Orosz

Java and Spring/Spring Boot

• Spring Start Here: Learn what you need and learn it well by Laurentiu Spilca

Typescript

• Effective TypeScript: 62 Specific Ways to Improve Your TypeScript by Dan Vanderkam

Python and Django

• Effective Python: 90 Specific Ways to Write Better Python by Brett Slatkin
• Two Scoops of Django 3.x: Best Practices for the Django Web Framework by Daniel Roy Greenfeld and Audrey Roy Greenfeld
• A Wedge of Django by Daniel Roy Greenfeld and Audrey Roy Greenfeld

Interview Preparation

• System Design Interview – An insider’s guide by Alex Xu
• Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
• Coding Interview Patterns: Nail Your Next Coding Interview by Alex Xu

Currently Reading

• Spring in Action by Craig Walls
• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.