 | Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert C. Martin
Buy new: $52.32 / Used from: $35.00 One of my favorites. This book is worth just for the 6 principles explained by 'Uncle' Bob. No programmer is worth his salt if he does not understand these 6 principles (great programmers would mostly be using these principles without knowing the names). Should be a part of Bachelors degree in Computer Science.
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 | 201 Principles of Software Development by Alan M. Davis
Buy used from: $0.25 A concise dictionary of important software principles that covers requirements, design, and development. It has a number of research references that are equally useful.
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 | Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn
Buy new: $35.96 / Used from: $27.00 This is an excellent book to get you interested in what use cases are and how they work. Most use case books are fairly dry, but Alistair has done a great job explaining the concepts.
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 | Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma
Buy new: $38.51 / Used from: $31.00 A default must-have for every person who wants to be a good software designer. I have used many of the patterns in this book (easy to convert to other languages even though the examples are in C) effectively. It makes your code a lot more flexible than you would initially think.
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 | Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans
Buy new: $45.77 / Used from: $34.97 Gives a new perspective on how you should design your software components. The emphasis of this book is on how to reflect your business domain in your code, which I feel is very important and creates the 'ubiquitous language' the author talks about.
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 | Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe
Buy new: $42.50 / Used from: $25.00 Very good if you start getting into distributed applications. Has some great patterns explained in a clear and concise manner. A must if you are into middleware, JMS, etc.
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 | Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
Buy new: $41.72 / Used from: $36.48 While most common IDEs (like Eclipse, IDEA, etc.) include refactoring tools, this book eloquently explains the concepts behind refactoring.
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