Must have computer books

For longtime I wanted to maintain a list of MUST HAVE / MUST READ books and as I came across a blog and found interesting and useful I am here starting my list with them.

Must-Read/Classic

• C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman
• Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

Discrete Math

• Discrete Mathematics with Applications by Susanna S. Epp
• Concrete Mathematics by Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik
• Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists by Benjamin C. Pierce

Computer Theory

• Computer Science: An Overview by J. Glenn Brookshear
• Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser
• Introduction to Computer Theory by Daniel I. A. Cohen
• Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation by John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, and Jeffrey D. Ullman

Algorithms

• Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein
• The Algorithm Design Manual by Steve S. Skiena
• Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth
• Algorithms in C by Robert Sedgewick
• Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki

Compilers

• The Art of Compiler Design by Thomas Pittman and James Peters
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman
• Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by Steven Muchnick
• Linkers and Loaders by John R. Levine

Programming Language Theory and Design

• Programming Language Pragmatics by Michael L. Scott
• Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce
• Essentials of Programming Languages by Daniel P. Friedman and Mitchell Wand

Hardware/CPU

• Inside the Machine by Jon Stokes
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

Operating Systems

• Operating Systems Design and Implementation by Andrew S Tanenbaum and Albert S Woodhull
• Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne
• Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love
• Linux Device Drivers by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman

Assembly

• Programming From The Ground Up by Jonathan Bartlett and Dominick, Jr. Bruno
• Assembly Language Step-by-Step by Jeff Duntemann

Network Programming

• Unix Network Programming, Volume 1 by W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, and Andrew M. Rudoff

Better Programming

• Code Complete by Steve McConnell
• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
• Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John M. Vlissides
• The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks
• Beautiful Code by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson

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