An attempt at listing some of my favorite books on different subjects.  My favor is usually reserved for concise books that pack a punch.  While I love amazon, I would point out that some of the information in these books is available on wikipedia:

The Mythical Man-Month

Design Patterns

Test-driven development

Extreme Programming

Scrum (development)

And Other Sources:

Memory Management
Game Memory Managment

General programming: 

C++

Games