What are some must read books on Software engineering?

if you're into backend domain or just like overall system design, go for

designing data-intensive applications

by Martin Klepmann; pretty amazing with a lot of depth and breadth one of the must read I think so

I mainly focus on Front-end side of things, but won’t mind picking some books around backend domain. Thanks for your suggestions @silly-train-46493!

the above books are mostly around architecture and overall design of the systems, not much backend or frontend also, the

mytical man month

is a different kind of book which consists of essays from a ibm engineer from 80s, stories from a veteran software engineer

+1 for the mythical man month

I'm currently reading Manager's path by Camille Fournier. It's a good read on software engineering management. Each chapter is on a particular level. Even if you don't aspire to go into management, it's worth reading as it has something for every level - starting from how to be managed, goes on to cover mentoring juniors as a dev, being a tech lead, moving into pure management roles etc.

+1 for The Manager's Path too! Gave me a great outlook of how engineering organizations are sttuctured and the different roles, responsibilities and expectations!

1. Clean code 2. Working effectively with legacy code. 3. Refactoring. 4. Extreme programming explained. I also write summaries here. https://burhanrashid52.com/reading/

Frontender should definitely read 'Design of Every day things'

I found that instead of reading design of everyday things, don't make me think might be a better option