some candidates

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

https://www.nand2tetris.org/

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours

A Philosophy of Software Design
https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ousterhout/dp/1732102201/ref=sr_1_1

The Innovator's Dilemma
https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Management-Innovation/dp/1633691780

Ivan Sutherland, "Technology and courage"
(1 week)

Peter Norvig, http://norvig.com/ngrams/
(1 week, could continue with the Norvig notebooks at https://github.com/norvig/pytudes#pytudes-index-of-jupyter-ipython-notebooks,
and other literate code)

Programmers at Work
(interviews)
https://archive.org/details/programmersatwor00lamm_0

Category Theory for Programmers

<xentrac> Dercuano!
<xentrac> Aaron Hsu's dissertation?
<xentrac> SICM
<xentrac> Oberon
<xentrac> Hehner's "a practical theory of programming"

https://michaelnielsen.org/blog/principles-of-effective-research/
https://michaelnielsen.org/blog/tough-learning-part-5-final-version/
(from https://michaelnielsen.org/blog/essays/)