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Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout was a great quick read on designing good code.

Kernighan and Plauger "Elements of Programming Style" may be out of print, but there seem to be many used copies available. For example:

Are you looking for a book geared toward a particular language, or one aimed more at better general programming methodology, regardless of language?

Either and both. I am a Python user with some C/C++ and Fortran experience. I dabble in other things, but those are my primaries.

Then I would say The Elements Of Programming Style, and possibly this one (I haven't read it, but from the description it seems to be what you're looking for): https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-SciPy-Art-Scientific-Python/d...