This list has changed significantly over the last couple years. I'd be wary of entrusting your education to someone who is optimizing his reading list based on what's generating the most Amazon referral fees. At the very least go and find the original version.
The great thing about computer stuff is that it's so easy to try it. Reading isn't enough, you need to do, but with many fields, doing isn't so easy. Talking about what you've read also helps some, which was one of the ideas behind Squeezed Books, which, unfortunately is not getting much traction.