Some of the juicier bits from these books have been fairly well absorbed by engineering culture, ie "rubber duck debugging" and "DRY". Some of these books I haven't heard of though.

As somebody who didn't study CS in college, the books that most changed my career were:

  * Algorithms, by Robert Sedgwick (probably not the best algorithms book, but lots of hands-on stuff)
  * Learning From Data, by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa et. al. This one has video lectures to go along with it.
  * C Programming: A Modern Approach. (Definitely not the best, but also lots of hands on stuff)

Another thing I've found extremely educational is to read major incident postmortems (SEV0s and security SEV1s at FB, "huge" OMGs at Google). If you ever find yourself anywhere with planet-scale infrastructure, make sure to read these write-ups. They are treasure.