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The Pragmatic Programmer (Hunt & Thomas) is the most all-around applicable and readable over a break. Of the rest, I'd recommend Refactoring (Fowler). Not on your list, but a good follow-on to Refactoring is Refactoring to Patterns (Joshua Kerievsky)

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I'd agree with that. And also add to the list (for later, maybe) two books by Steve McConnell[1] - Code Complete and Rapid Development.

[1]: https://stevemcconnell.com/books/

Fantastic. Jotted those two down. Thanks for the input -- I really appreciate it.

Code Complete is good but it's much longer. Not easy to tackle over a break.

I figured The Pragmatic Programmer might be a good one. I'll begin with that. I've added Refactoring to Patterns to my list. Thanks for sharing this.

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