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Game Engine Architecture 2nd Edition
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00MMOJ076/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1

A great overview of all the engine subsystems that power a modern game. As a bonus, its written
by Jason Gregory (Lead Programmer at Naughty Dog).

There isn't a completely language agnostic book out there like you'd find with say Code Complete, but there are two books that fit your description but neither is really a beginner text.

 

Game Coding Complete

and

Game Programming Patterns, much of which is available on his website.



Once you get a bit more (ok, a lot more experienced), Game Engine Architecture is another great read.

 

Other than those 3 books, almost everything else is technology or language specific... like Learning Unity 5 or Learning Inverse Kinematics for __, etc.

 

While you are just starting out however, you should consider the beginners guide on Gamefromscratch, followed by various tutorial series or game engine overviews, as you aren't at the point where you really need to buy a book yet.

This will touch upon every area in game dev.

i.e.

• Memory Pools
  
• Hashing
  
• Spatial Partitioning
  
  I would recommend 2 books:
  
  
• Game Engine Architecture
  
• Game Programming Patterns