Code Complete

This book is exactly as good as everyone (especially Jeff Atwood) says. Rather than trying to summarize its 800-plus pages here, instead I will link to the books it referenced that made their way onto my to-read list:

• Effective C++ and More Effective C++ by Scott Meyers
• Peer Reviews in Software by Karl Wiegers
• Writing Efficient Programs by Jon Louis Bentley
• Software Engineering Economics by Barry Boehm
• Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister
• Large-Scale C++ Software Design by John Lakos
• The Practice of Programming by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike
• The Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald Weinberg