On my bookshelf: Beautiful Architecture, 1st Edition By Diomidis Spinellis; Georgios Gousios If your feeling unmodivated this will get you excited about our industry again. The other titles in the "Beautiful" series are well worth reading also. Core Web Programming By Marty Hall; Larry Brown Out of date now but one of my favorites back in the day The Art of SQL By: Stephane Faroult; Peter Robson Database tech might be out of scope for this thread but regardless Art of SQL is a masterpiece (database architect as Napoleon!)