Books

C++ books

Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language

Herb Sutter, Exceptional C++ Style

Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu, C++ Coding Standards

Stephen C. Dewhurst, C++ Common Knowledge

Windows

Dale Rogerson, Inside COM

Great book to understand COM design

Charles Petzold, Programming Windows

Windows programming using the native Win32 application programming interface (API)

Brent Rector, Chris Sells, ATL Internals

Good ATL reference

Miscellany

Simon Singh, Fermat's Enigma

The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem