Top 50 Software Engineering Books To Read in 2021

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Software Engineering is the branch of computer science that deals with the building of software system that are too large and so complex that they are built by a team of engineers.

The exponential rise of the Internet led to very rapid growth in the demand for international information display systems on the World Wide Web. Programmers were required to handle illustrations, maps, photographs, and other images, plus simple animation, at a rate never before seen, with few well-known methods to optimize image display/storage.

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With the expanding demand for software in many smaller organizations, the need for inexpensive software solutions led to the growth of simpler, faster methodologies that developed running software, from requirements to deployment, quicker and easier.

Below is the list of Top 50 Software Engineering Books which you can start to read right now:

1. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series)

Published Date – 25 September 2017
Author – Robert C. Martin
Language –‎ English
Pages – 464

2. The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery

Published Date – 25 November 2019
Author(s) – David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
Language –‎ English
Pages – 352

3. Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering

Published Date – 8 August 1995
Author – Frederick Brooks Jr.
Language – English
Pages – 336

4. Code Complete 2e (Developer Best Practices)

Published Date – 9 June 2004
Author – Steve Mcconnell
Language – English
Pages – 960

5. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

Published Date – 4 January 2019
Author – Martin Fowler
Language – English
Pages – 448

6. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Published Date – 31 October 1994
Author(s) – Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson & John Vlissides
Language – English
Pages – 416

7. Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series)

Published Date – 7 October 2004
Author – Michael Feathers
Language – English
Pages – 464

8. Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach

Published Date – 1 April 2009
Author – Roger Pressman
Language – English
Pages – 928

9. Clean Coder, The: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series)

Published Date – 13 May 2011
Author – Martin
Language – English
Pages – 256

10. Clean Architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)

Published Date – 13 September 2017
Author – Robert Martin
Language – English
Pages – 432

11. Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

Published Date – 1 July 2015
Author – Gayle Laakmann McDowell
Language – English
Pages – 708

12. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

Published Date – 13 March 2020
Author(s) – Titus Winters, Hyrum Wright & Tom Manshrek
Language – English
Pages – 500

13. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Dv- Undefined)

Published Date – 11 October 2000
Author – Charles Petzold
Language – English
Pages – 400

14. Software Engineering

Published Date – 24 May 2017
Author – Ian Sommerville
Language – English
Pages – 808

15. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Published Date – 1 February 1999
Author(s) – Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister
Language – English
Pages – 245

16. Art of Computer Programming, The: Volume 1

Published Date – 14 August 1997
Author – Donald Knuth
Language – English
Pages – 672

17. Head First Design Patterns: Building Extensible and Maintainable Object-Oriented Software

Published Date – 15 December 2020
Author(s) – Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson
Language – English
Pages – 672

18. Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach

Published Date – 7 February 2020
Author(s) – Mark Richards & Neal Ford
Language – English
Pages – 400

19. Introduction to Algorithms

Published Date – 2 February 2010
Author(s) – Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
Language – English
Pages – 1312

20. The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery

Published Date – 25 November 2019
Author(s) – David Thomas & Andrew Hunt
Language – English
Pages – 352

21. Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices

Published Date – 20 November 2002
Author – Robert Martin
Language – English
Pages – 552

22. Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Published Date – 1 January 2014
Author – Mall B
Language ‏- English
Pages – 544

23. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Published Date – 15 November 2002
Author – Martin Fowler
Language – English
Pages – 560

24. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Published Date – 26 August 2016
Author – Michael Lopp
Language ‏- English
Pages – 331

25. Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge

Published Date – 17 January 2014
Author(s) – Pierre Bourque, Richard E Fairley & Ieee Computer Society
Language ‏- English
Pages – 348

26. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Published Date – 4 September 2003
Author – Eric Evans
Language ‏- English
Pages – 506

27. Building Microservices

Published Date – 1 January 2015
Author – Sam Newman
Language ‏- English
Pages – 304

28. Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

Published Date – 8 April 2016
Author(s) – Betsy Beyer, Jennifer Petoff, Chris Jones & Niall Richard Murphy
Language ‏- English
Pages – 552

29. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Published Date – 1 January 2017
Author – Martin Kleppmann
Language ‏- English
Pages – 616

30. Beginning Software Engineering

Published Date – 24 April 2015
Author – Rod Stephens
Language ‏- English
Pages – 480

31. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Published Date – 4 September 2003
Author – Eric Evans
Language ‏- English
Pages – 560

32. Practice of Programming, The

Published Date – 23 February 1999
Author(s) – Brian Kernighan & Rob Pike
Language ‏- English
Pages – 288

33. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Published Date – 25 July 1996
Author(s) – Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman & Julie Sussman
Language ‏ – ‎ English
Pages – 574

34. Test Driven Development: By Example

Published Date – 20 November 2002
Author – Kent Beck
Language ‏- English
Pages – 240

35. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications

Published Date – 9 May 2007
Author(s) – John Fuller, Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Bobbi Young Ph.D., Jim Conallen & Kelli Houston
Language ‏- English
Pages – 720

36. User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product

Published Date – 1 December 2014
Author – Jeff Patton
Language – English
Pages – 342

37. The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering: Free the Practices from the Method Prisons!

Published Date – 30 July 2019
Author(s) – Ivar Jacobson, Harold Bud Lawson, Pan-Wei Ng, Paul E. McMahon & Michael Goedicke
Language ‏- English
Pages – 399