What should my next book be? I’ve narrowed down to these—

A Commentary on Unix by John Lions
Clean Code by Robert C Main
Code Complete by Steve McConnell
SICP by Gerald Jay Sussman

Feel free to suggest any other book as well

Drop clean code. It's not valuable, and full of opinion. Adherents of that book are generally unbearable to work with.

Add the introduction to algorithms book

Agree with @SortOfTested, greater than 50% of Clean Code is opinion, reminiscing, and inflated ego. There are a few good nuggets in there that really makes you think. But it was not what I was hoping for.

The Clean Coder (by same author) is similar. Very opinionated and feels like he is really putting people down that dont meet his version of a "professional". I am struggling to finish reading it. Again there are some good bits and pieces in there.

SICP, any day.

@SortOfTested preach sister!!! Iess gonna write that aswell.

@SortOfTested I’m in college and one of my professors starts class by talking about a principal from that book and it doesn’t seem that bad

@Dreamr
Turns out, broken clocks are right twice a day. It's easy to cherry pick high points from middling work, that doesn't absolve the opinion and superstition presented as fact.

@SortOfTested ah ok, I’ve seen people on Twitter talk badly about that book but never understand why, thanks