I’m going to give this list a go:

1. On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules – David Parnas
2. A Note On Distributed Computing – Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollrath, Sam Kendall
3. The Next 700 Programming Languages – P. J. Landin
4. Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? – John Backus
5. Reflections on Trusting Trust – Ken Thompson
6. Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big – Richard Gabriel
7. An experimental evaluation of the assumption of independence in multiversion programming – John Knight and Nancy Leveson
8. Arguments and Results – James Noble
9. A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking – Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham
10. Programming as an Experience: the inspiration for Self – David Ungar, Randall B. Smith

The article has a synopsis for each one of the papers.

Link: 10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)