Bookshelf

Technical

The books I find really useful at work. There are many more on the shelf, but these are the good ones.

Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam (SCWCD)Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: A Brain Friendly Guide to OOA&D (Head First)Brett D. McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, Dave West
Head First EJB (Brain-Friendly Study Guides; Enterprise JavaBeans)Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
The C++ Programming Language (Special 3rd Edition)Bjarne Stroustrup
C++: The Complete Reference, 4th EditionHerbert Schildt
STL Programming from the Ground UpHerbert Schildt
Unix Distributed ProgrammingChris Brown
Core Java 2, Volume I: Fundamentals (6th Edition)Cay Horstmann, Gary Cornell
Patterns of Enterprise Application ArchitectureMartin Fowler
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides
DNS and BIND, Fourth EditionPaul Albitz, Cricket Liu
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second EditionDave Thomas, Chad Fowler, Andy Hunt
Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd EditionDave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, Andreas Schwarz
The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)Hal Fulton
Enterprise Integration with RubyMaik Schmidt
Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson
Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers)Chad Fowler
Rails Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))Rob Orsini
The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)Obie Fernandez

Non-Fiction

Motivational/Self Help

Psychology