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2022-06-12 · 77 points · 26 comments · 21 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

  1. 3

    The C Programming Language

    Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie

    3 here · 124 all-time · #15 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 182 ratings on Amazon
  2. 2

    Designing Data-Intensive Applications

    Martin Kleppmann

    2 here · 104 all-time · #24 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 5,595 ratings on Amazon
  3. 2Thinking Forth

    Thinking Forth

    Leo Brodie

    2 here · 15 all-time · #430 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 35 ratings on Amazon
  4. 1

    Gödel, Escher, Bach

    Douglas Hofstadter

    1 here · 347 all-time · #1 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 2,713 ratings on Amazon
  5. 1

    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

    Richard Feynman

    1 here · 90 all-time · #35 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 13,344 ratings on Amazon
  6. 1

    The Phoenix Project

    Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

    1 here · 67 all-time · #56 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 14,975 ratings on Amazon
  7. 1A Philosophy of Software Design

    A Philosophy of Software Design

    John Ousterhout

    1 here · 42 all-time · #116 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2,832 ratings on Amazon
  8. 1

    Flowers for Algernon

    Daniel Keyes

    1 here · 33 all-time · #160 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 40,104 ratings on Amazon
  9. 1

    Crafting Interpreters

    Robert Nystrom

    1 here · 32 all-time · #175 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 734 ratings on Amazon
  10. 1TCP/IP Illustrated

    TCP/IP Illustrated

    W. Richard Stevens

    1 here · 20 all-time · #320 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 321 ratings on Amazon
  11. 1Introduction to the Theory of Computation

    Introduction to the Theory of Computation

    Michael Sipser

    1 here · 18 all-time · #363 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 600 ratings on Amazon
  12. 1Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

    Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

    W. Richard Stevens

    1 here · 14 all-time · #465 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 266 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1Site Reliability Engineering

    Site Reliability Engineering

    Google

    1 here · 14 all-time · #472 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,233 ratings on Amazon
  14. 1Game Programming Patterns

    Game Programming Patterns

    Robert Nystrom

    1 here · 11 all-time · #577 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,556 ratings on Amazon
  15. 1Machine Learning

    Machine Learning

    Tom Mitchell

    1 here · 11 all-time · #580 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 551 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1Let Over Lambda

    Let Over Lambda

    Doug Hoyte

    1 here · 11 all-time · #592 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 68 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1Distributed Systems

    Distributed Systems

    Andrew S. Tanenbaum

    1 here · 9 all-time · #762 overall

  18. 1Hacker's Delight

    Hacker's Delight

    Henry S. Warren

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1093 overall

  19. 1Out of the Tar Pit

    Out of the Tar Pit

    Moseley and Marks

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1758 overall

  20. 1Patterns of Software

    Patterns of Software

    Richard P. Gabriel

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2372 overall

  21. 1Release It!

    Release It!

    Michael T. Nygard

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2373 overall