[zgm]

As a recent graduate, I cannot recommend Pragmatic Programmer and Code Complete highly enough.

Pragmatic Programmer fills in the gaps you need to succeed as a professional programmer.

Code Complete is a field guide to managing software complexity.

[LoSboccacc]

come to say this. code complete is basically a free ticket to obtain 10 years of working experience in one go. I read it after 3 years of career, and still found the content insightful

I'd also add the mythical man month. being a programmer is good, but overspecializing as the technical guy cause a certain degree of blindness to other software requirements (cost, time, quality). some part of that books can't really work in today work environment because external constraint, like the surgical team, but every word of it is gold.