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I thought about posting this here after a relative success asking the question on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/info/6mikl/comments/ http://www.reddit.com/info/6mikl/comments/ but it looks like you've beaten me to it! I did create a listing of the most popular books mentioned on the comment thread, if you're interested. The following were mentioned by 4 or more people: 14 The C Programming Language 11 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 8 Introduction to Algorithms 7 Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools 6 Programming Erlang 5 The Mythical Man-Month 5 The Pragmatic Programmer 5 Applied Cryptography 4 Beautiful Code 4 The Little Schemer 4 Programming Perl more here: http://www.reddit.com/info/6mikl/comments/c04abpy http://www.reddit.com/info/6mikl/comments/c04abpy