What to Read After Code Complete
Readers who loved Code Complete by Steve McConnell keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Code Complete is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Code Complete
Head First design patterns
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Design Patterns
Test Driven Development
The Mythical Man-Month
Programming Pearls
Pragmatic Programmer
Joel on Software
Domain-Driven Design
The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Cracking the coding interview
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)
Beautiful Code
Clean Code
Peopleware
JavaScript
Coders at work
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Clean Coder
The passionate programmer
Effective Java
The art of UNIX programming
Refactoring to Patterns (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
Effective C++