Maybe you expect a plain book list now. There's many on the web which are really good and complete. So I have decided to provide you with a few pointers to excellent book lists. I will then present a few of my personal favorites.
the list of
software engineering
books by the Atlantic Systems Guild
Ed
Yourdon's favorite
books
you
will find a rather complete list
of pattern books on the patterns
home page
Carnegie
Mellon University's Software Engineering
Insitute (SEI) features a excellent site on software
architecture and also a bibliography
for
listings on object/relational access layers and object-orientation, visit Cetus-Links,
or our pages on object/relational mapping
see also my personal
favorites