List of computer books

Programming

Ada

• John Barnes – ''Programming in Ada 2012''

  C

• Andrew Koenig – C Traps and Pitfalls
• Brian W. Kernighan – The C Programming Language
• Guy L. Steele Jr. – C: A Reference Manual
• Herbert Schildt – C, The Complete Reference
• Peter van der Linden – ''Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets''

  C++

• Andrei Alexandrescu – Modern C++ Design
• Bjarne Stroustrup – The C++ Programming Language, A Tour of C++, The Annotated C++ Reference Manual
• Herb Sutter – Exceptional C++, More Exceptional C++, Exceptional C++ Style, C++ Coding Standards
• Scott Meyers – Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective Modern C++
• Stanley B. Lippman – Inside the C++ Object Model, ''C++ Gems: Programming Pearls from The C++ Report''

  C#

• Andrew Troelsen – Pro C# 10 with.NET 6: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming
• Bill Wagner – Effective C#
• Jeff Prosise – Programming Microsoft.NET
• Herbert Schildt – C#: A Beginner's Guide and ''C# 4.0: The Complete Reference''

  Fortran

• Daniel D. McCracken – A Guide to Fortran Programming
• Elliot Koffman – Problem Solving and Program Design in Fortran
• Jeanne Clare Adams – Fortran 90 Handbook and Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90
• William H. Press – ''Numerical Recipes''

  Go

• Brian W. Kernighan – ''The Go Programming Language''

  Java

• Bruce Eckel – Thinking in Java
• James Gosling – The Java Programming Language
• Joshua Bloch – Effective Java
• Kathy Sierra – Head First Java
• Herbert Schildt – Java: The Complete Reference, Java: A Beginner's Guide, ''Java 2 Programmer's Reference''

  JavaScript

• Douglas Crockford – JavaScript: The Good Parts and How JavaScript Works
• John Resig – Pro JavaScript Techniques and Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja
• Jeremy Keith – DOM Scripting
• Danny Goodman – JavaScript Bible
• John Smiley – Learn to Program with JavaScript
• Laura Lemay – ''Laura Lemay's Web Workshop: JavaScript''

  Lisp

• Guy L. Steele Jr. – Common Lisp the Language
• Patrick Henry Winston – Lisp
• Paul Graham – On Lisp and ANSI Common Lisp
• Peter Norvig – Paradigms of AI Programming
• Peter Seibel – Practical Common Lisp
• Richard P. Gabriel – Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems
• Sonya Keene – ''Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp''

  Perl

• brian d foy – Mastering Perl
• chromatic – Perl Best Practices, Perl Hacks, Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook
• Damian Conway – Object Oriented Perl
• GNU Savannah – Perl [Design Patterns Book]
• Jon Bentley – Programming Pearls
• Joseph N. Hall – Effective Perl Programming
• Larry Wall – Programming Perl
• Mark Jason Dominus – Higher-Order Perl
• Randal L. Schwartz – Intermediate Perl and Learning Perl
• Sriram Srinivasan – Advanced Perl Programming
• Tom Christiansen – Perl Cookbook and Programming Perl 2nd and 3rd editions

  PHP

• Rasmus Lerdorf – Programming PHP
• Zak Greant – PHP Functions Essential Reference
• David Mercer – ''Beginning PHP5''

  Python

• Alex Martelli — Python in a Nutshell and Python Cookbook
• Mark Pilgrim – Dive into Python
• Naomi Ceder — The Quick Python Book
• Wes McKinney — Python for Data Analysis
• Zed Shaw – ''Learn Python the Hard Way''

  R

• David G. Robinson — Text Mining with R
• Hadley Wickham – Advanced R
• Roger Bivand – Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R
• Yihui Xie – Dynamic Documents with R and knitr
• Dirk Eddelbuettel – Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp
• John Fox – Using the R Commander: A Point-and-Click Interface for R
• John Chambers – ''Software for data analysis programming with R''

  Ruby

• Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas – Programming Ruby
• Sandi Metz — Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
• Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson – Agile Web Development with Rails
• why the lucky stiff – why's Guide to Ruby
• Yukihiro Matsumoto — Ruby, Ruby in a Nutshell, and The Ruby Programming Language
• Zed Shaw — ''Learn Ruby the Hard Way''

  SQL

• C. J. Date – An Introduction to Database Systems
• Hugh Darwen – Databases, Types and The Relational Model: the Third Manifesto
• Ben Forta – SQL in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself
• Joe Celko – ''Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties''

  Visual Basic

• John Smiley – Learn to Program with Visual Basic 6
• Michael Halvorson – Microsoft Visual Basic 4 Step by Step
• Dan Rahmel – Visual Basic.NET Reference Book
• Clayton Walnum – The Complete Idiot's Guide to Visual Basic 6
• Mitchell Waite – ''Visual Basic How To''

  Algorithms

• Donald Knuth – The Art of Computer Programming
• Ellis Horowitz – Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms
• Henry S. Warren, Jr. – Hacker's Delight
• Niklaus Wirth – Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs and Systematic Programming
• Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill – The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer
• Maxime Crochemore and Wojciech Rytter – Jewels of Stringology
• Nachum Dershowitz and Edward Reingold – Calendrical Calculations
• Pedro Domingos – The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
• Thomas H. Cormen – Algorithms Unlocked
• William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, and Brian P. Flannery – Numerical Recipes

  Cryptocurrencies

• Alex Tapscott – Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World
• Andreas Antonopoulos – Mastering Bitcoin, Mastering Ethereum, and The Internet of Money
• Ben Mezrich – Bitcoin Billionaires
• David Gerard – Attack of the 50-foot Blockchain
• Nathaniel Popper – Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
• Saifedean Ammous – The Bitcoin Standard
• Vitalik Buterin – ''Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains''

  Cryptography

• Craig P. Bauer – Unsolved!
• David Kahn – The Codebreakers
• John Falconer – Cryptomenysis Patefacta
• Leo Marks – Between Silk and Cyanide
• Matt Curtin – Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard
• Simon Singh – The Code Book
• Steven Levy – Crypto
• William F. Friedman – Military Cryptanalytics

  Unix

• Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike – The Unix Programming Environment
• Eric Raymond – The Art of Unix Programming
• John Lions – A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System
• Stephen R. Bourne – The Unix System
• W. Richard Stevens – ''Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment''

  Linux

• Bruce Perens – Bruce Perens' Open Source Series
• Eric S. Raymond – The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Gerard Beekmans – Linux from Scratch
• Glyn Moody – Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution
• Jonathan Oxer – Ubuntu Hacks
• Kenneth Brown – Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code
• Michael Kerrisk – The Linux Programming Interface
• Michael W. Lucas – Absolute OpenBSD
• Olaf Kirch & Terry Dawson – ''Linux Network Administrator's Guide''

  Artificial intelligence

• Allen Newell – Unified Theories of Cognition
• Brian Christian – The Alignment Problem
• James Barrat – Our Final Invention
• James Lovelock – Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
• Janelle Shane – You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
• Jeff Hawkins – On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
• Jonathan Birch – The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI
• John Brockman – Possible Minds: Twenty-five Ways of Looking at AI
• Kai-Fu Lee – AI Superpowers
• Kate Crawford – Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
• Max Tegmark – Life 3.0
• Marvin Minsky – The Emotion Machine and Society of Mind
• Melanie Mitchell – Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
• Meredith Broussard – Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
• Ray Kurzweil – The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Singularity Is Nearer, How to Create a Mind
• Richard Dooling – Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ
• Roger Penrose – The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
• Stan Franklin – Artificial Minds
• Stuart J. Russell – ''Human Compatible''

  Other / General Programming

• Andrew S. Tanenbaum – Modern Operating Systems and Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
• Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas – The Pragmatic Programmer
• Benjamin C. Pierce – Types and Programming Languages
• Bertrand Meyer – Object-Oriented Software Construction
• Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen – Real World Haskell
• Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike – The Practice of Programming
• Brian W. Kernighan – The AWK Programming Language and The Elements of Programming Style
• Tony Hoare and He Jifeng – Unifying Theories of Programming
• Charles Petzold – Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
• Chris DiBona – Open Sources and Open Sources 2.0
• Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones – How Data Happened
• Claude Shannon – A Mathematical Theory of Communication
• Diomidis Spinellis – Code Reading
• Danny Hillis – The Pattern on the Stone
• Edward Yourdon – Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer and other publications
• Ellen Ullman – Close to the Machine
• Fred Brooks – The Mythical Man-Month
• Gang of Four – Design Patterns
• Geoffrey James – The Tao of Programming
• Gerald M. Weinberg – The Psychology of Computer Programming
• Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf – Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Ivo D. Dinov – Data Science and Predictive Analytics
• Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Robin Wilson – The Turing Guide
• Jean E. Sammet – Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals
• Jean-Raymond Abrial – The B-Book
• Joel Spolsky – The Best Software Writing I
• Joshua Pearce – Open-Source Lab
• Keith Curtis – After the Software Wars
• Martin Fowler – Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert – Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry
• Michael Garey and David S. Johnson – Computers and Intractability
• Michael Halvorson – Learn BASIC Now
• Michael Nielsen — Neural Networks and Deep Learning and Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
• Michael Sipser – Introduction to the Theory of Computation
• Myron W. Krueger – Artificial Reality
• Narendra M. Thumbhekodige – The Oracle J2EE Companion
• Neal Stephenson – In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
• Nicole Forsgren – Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
• Pekka Himanen and Linus Torvalds – The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
• Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture
• Paul Graham – Hackers & Painters
• Peter Norvig – Paradigms of AI Programming
• Peter Seibel – Coders at Work
• Randi J. Rost — OpenGL Shading Language and X and MOTIF Quick Reference Guide
• Richard M. Stallman – Free Software, Free Society
• Richard P. Gabriel – Patterns of Software and Innovation Happens Elsewhere
• Robert C. Martin – Clean Code
• Rodnay Zaks – Programming the Z80
• Sam Williams – Free as in Freedom
• Scott Rosenberg – Dreaming in Code
• Seth Lloyd – Programming the Universe
• Steve McConnell – Code Complete
• Stephen Wolfram – A New Kind of Science
• Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister – Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
• William Brown – AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis
• William Wulf – ''The Design of an Optimizing Compiler''

  Internet

• Douglas Rushkoff — Cyberia: [Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace]
• Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu — Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of Borderless World
• Tim Berners-Lee — ''Weaving the Web''

  Hackers and hacker culture

• Bill Blunden – The Rootkit Arsenal
• Bill Landreth and Howard Rheingold – Out of the Inner Circle
• Bruce Sterling – The Hacker Crackdown
• Clifford Stoll – The Cuckoo's Egg
• Cory Doctorow – Little Brother
• Douglas Thomas – Hacker Culture
• Daniel Golden and Renee Dudley – The Ransomware Hunting Team
• Eric S. Raymond – The New Hacker's Dictionary and Revenge of the Hackers
• Glyn Moody – Rebel Code
• Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Hugo Cornwall – The Hacker's Handbook
• Jon "Smibbs" Erickson – Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
• Joseph Menn – Fatal System Error
• Julian Assange – Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
• Kevin Mitnick – Ghost in the Wires and The Art of Intrusion
• Kevin Poulsen – Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
• Linus Torvalds and David Diamond – Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
• Malcolm Nance – The Plot to Hack America
• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
• Sam Williams – Free as in Freedom
• Scott J. Shapiro – Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
• Sean Bodmer, Max Kilger, Gregory Carpenter, and Jade Jones – Reverse Deception
• Steven Levy – Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
• Suelette Dreyfus – Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
• William Cheswick and Steven M. Bellovin – ''Firewalls and Internet Security''

  Textbooks

• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
• Artificial Intelligence
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
• Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming - MIT Press
• Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
• Core Python Programming
• Essentials of Programming Languages
• How to Design Programs
• How to Solve it by Computer
• Introduction to Algorithms
• Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation
• Lisp
• Operating System Concepts
• Principles of Compiler Design
• Principles of Model Checking
• Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation
• Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
• Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering
• The Visualization Handbook
• Walls and Mirrors

  Essays / other

• Satoshi Nakamoto, The Bitcoin Whitepaper
• Electronic Workshops in Computing
• Handbook of Automated Reasoning - survey articles on automated reasoning by MIT Press
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Chris Lattner, LLVM: A Compilation Framework for Lifelong Program Analysis & Transformation
• No Silver Bullet
• The Hacker Manifesto
• Bill Gates, "The Internet Tidal Wave"
• The Magic Cauldron
• David Heinemeier Hansson, The Rails Doctrine
• The Zen of Python
• Techno-Optimist Manifesto
• Turtle Geometry