[dark_lord]

You have listed some true classics. Your list is more applicable to senior IT personnel rather than junior personnel, so I will add to the list with that perspective in mind.

11. "Writing Effective Use Cases" by Alistair Cockburn (2001)
12. "Agile Software Development" by Alistair Cockburn (2002)
13. "UML Distilled 2nd Edition" by Martin Fowler and Kendall Scott (2000)
14. "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler (2003
15. "Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures” by Douglas Barry (2003)
16. "Pair Programming Illuminated" by Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler (2003)
17. "Secrets & Lies" by Bruce Schneier (2000)

I also recommend the few books on the Rational Unified Process. Compare and contrast with Extreme Programming.

[dfwgator]

I do have the Fowler Patterns of Enterprise Architecture in my original list.

I should have added this one: The Pragmatic Programmer - Thomas and Hunt.

Also, Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style" - Of course it has nothing to do with computers, but I would still have it as mandatory reading.

[dfwgator]

The first question I would ask any interviewee is "What is Fowler's First Law of Distributed Objects." If he answers it correctly, he's hired!!!