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I've gotten a back-log of books to read, with more arriving Real Soon Now. If you're developing software in Java, C++, C#, or some other object oriented language, you need to buy these books for your professional toolkit.

Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

JUnit Recipes: Practical Methods for Programmer Testing by J.B. Rainsberger and Scott Stirling

Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt

Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps by Mike Clark

Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt

Extreme Programming Adventures in C# by Ron Jeffries

In a completely different area, I recommend this as well: Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think by the cognitive linguist George Lakoff.