On the other hand it is different for collecting interesting and influential papers and essays. You read them in an afternoon and ponder over them for quite a while! Then you revisit them way, maybe years, later again.

But yes, you don‘t need more than one good introductory book on architecture, most of the books listed don’t have anything to do with architecture anyways, but rather software culture.

Maybe you don’t need to read one at all, but rather a paper from someone who analyzed or created a piece of software with interesting and useful architecture.