Good books in computer science?

[koranthala]

> Code Complete and GOF are software engineering books but not really
> CS books.

I understand and concur. Since I am a software engineer - coming in to
software from a different background - what I am looking for is self-
improvement books for a software engineer. This can include both CS
and Software books - even though I found that CS books are much less
understandable to me :-)