Dr. Elahi Ghomshei has compiled a list of 100-all-time-best books. The list is here and here Also in Good Reads here and here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_man

Conceptual Books	Software Eng. Books
An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata, Peter Linz, 2001	JavaScript the Definitive Guide, O'REILLY, 2006
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, Aho, Sethi and Ullman Engineering a Compiler, Cooper, Torczon 2004	Java Regular Expressions: Taming the java.util.regex Engine, by M. Habibi, 2004
Artificial Intelligence, Russel, Nurving 2002	jQuery in Action, by B. Bibeault and Y. Katz, 2008
Distributed Operating Systems, Tanenbaum, 2001	Ivor Horton's Beginning Java 2: JDK 5 Edition, by Ivor Horton, WROX 2004
Digital Image Processing, Gonzalez, 2002	The Art of Unit Testing with Examples in .NET, by Roy Osherove 2009
Matrix Analysis & Applied Linear Algebra, Carl D. Meyer, 2000	Java Servlet Programming by J. Hunter 1998
Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Erwin Kreyszig	Learning Perl, by Schwartz, Phoenix, Foy 2008
	Subversion Version Control, by W. Naggel 2005
	The Subversion Book by sussman, fitz and cmpilato