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I've been reading Real World Haskell recently and loving it. It does a fantastic job of blowing your mind while simultaneously showing you how to apply Haskell to real-world problems.
Refactoring by Martin Fowler. Extremely practical if you work with old and large code bases.
Stroustrup's "A Tour of C++" is a great overview of C++11 and modern C++. It's not very long and worth a read to see what's new in the C++ world. The audience is aimed at people who already know C++ but want to know what's new with the latest version. I've been doing a lot more with C++11 recently and am really impressed with the language--dare I say C++ is actually fun to use.
I've recently read The Passionate Programmer and was rather disappointed. The book has a few very valuable insights. For the most part it reads like a series of blog posts from a slightly experienced developer.
Check the table of contents, it will give you an idea of what to expect from the book.
Also "The Reasoned Schemer", which has the same pedagogical style as the other Schemer books, but works around logic programming.
Both of those books are mind benders and I've gotten a lot out of them recently.
I have not read it completely, because the first chapters inspired me to start programming (in Erlang) and I haven't gotten back to the book yet.