Ask HN: Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge?
Even though there are literally thousands of books on software engineering, not many are really useful or career changing. That said, let&#x27;s try and name the books that you consider to be important in your career, how you understand the field, your current skills and depth of knowledge.<p>Let me start:<p>1. Designing Data Intensive Applications<p>This book doesn&#x27;t need any additional praise, but it&#x27;s just brilliant how it manages to be both highly technical and very readable (and even capturing).<p>2. The Pragmatic Programmer<p>I wish I had read it years ago. It reads like a great conversation with an incredibly experienced friend of yours<p>3. Philosophy of Software Design<p>It&#x27;s debatable whether this book is the better replacement for Clean Code, but I really like how nuanced and undogmatic it is.<p>It goes without saying that with such books it&#x27;s often the case that you revisit some parts or delay until you have a usecase that includes the topic discussed in the book. This is especially true for DDIA.<p>What are your top 3-5? Please, also add your brief comments on how exactly this book changed you :)