Some books are replaced with newer analogs. Considerable part of my experience and knowledge (e.g. PHP, GWT or Hybris) is absolutely irrelevant to Software engineering, thus such books where intentionally skipped.

Books are listed in order of my first expirience in their subject.

• C++ Primer Plus by Stephen Prata

• HTML and CSS by Jon Duckett

• SQL and Relational Theory by C. J. Date

• Linux Bible by Christopher Negus, Christine Bresnahan

• Core Java by Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell Volume 1, Volume 2 and The Well-Grounded Java Developer by Benjamin J Evans

• Clean Code by Robert C. Martin

• Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman and Bert Bates

• Testing Computer Software by Hung Q. Nguyen, Cem Kaner, Jack Falk

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu

• Software Estimation by Steve McConnell

• xUnit Test Patterns by Gerard Meszaros

• Pro JavaScript Techniques by John Resig

• HTTP/1.1 Specification and HTTP/2 Draft Specifications

• Test Driven Development by Kent Beck

• The Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Maurice Herlihy

• Software Architecture in Practice by Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman

• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

• Essential Scrum by Kenneth S. Rubin

• Peopleware by Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister

• Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

• Groovy in Action by Dierk König, Guillaume Laforge and Programming in Scala by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, Bill Venners

• The Art of Scalability by Martin L. Abbott

• Oracle Coherence 3.5 by Aleksandar Seovic, Mark Falco, Patrick Peralta

• Principles of Transaction Processing by Philip A. Bernstein, Eric Newcomer

• SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Rischbeck, Thomas Erl

• Introduction to Information Retrieval by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze

• NoSQL Distilled by Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin Fowler

• Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble, David Farley

• Systems Performance by Brendan Gregg

• The reactive manifesto and Reactive Design Patterns by Roland Kuhn and Jamie Allen