I will mainly talk about the award-winning bibliography (because I have recently been engaged in testing and defect management, I will talk about these two products later)
Unfortunately, I have never read any of the general books, and I have read three of them in the second type of technical books, which are accurate to being browsed. To be honest, it is not easy to write impressive books.
I noticed that both of the first prizes were published by o'reilly.
Complete list of winners: http://www.sdmagazine.com/pressroom/jolt_winners_2005.pdf
CMP media's Software Development Magazine announces winners for the 15th annual jolt product excellence & Productivity Awards
60 products, 1 Hall of Fame winner and an industry luminary honored
The 2005 Winners by category are:
Books: General
jolt winner: • head first design patterns by elisw.freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates and Kathy siider (O 'Reilly)
productivity winners:
• Joel on software by Joel Spolsky (apress)
• refactoring to patterns by Joshua kerievsky (Addison-Wesley professional)
• Software factories: processing applications with patterns, models, frameworks, and tools by Jack Greenfield, Keith short, Steve Cook, Stuart Kent, John crupi (Wiley)
books: Technical
jolt winner: • better, faster, lighter Java by Bruce. tate and Justin gehtland (O 'Reilly)
productivity vity winners:
• C ++ coding standards: 101 rules, guidelines, and best practices by Herb Suter and Andrei Alexandrescu (Addison-Wesley professional)
• hibernate: A developer's notebook by James Elliott (O 'Reilly)
• Java developer's Guide to eclipse, second edition by Jim d' Anjou, Scott Fairbrother, Dan kehn, John Kellerman, Pat McCarthy (Addison-Wesley professional)