Probably just the classics: K&R, Abelson/Sussman, Knuth, Sterling/Shapiro, Geoffrey James, Tanenbaum, Polya, Crockford, Stroustrup, Bentley, Russel/Norvig, Fall

Probably just the classics: K&R, Abelson/Sussman, Knuth, Sterling/Shapiro, Geoffrey James, Tanenbaum, Polya, Crockford, Stroustrup, Bentley, Russel/Norvig, Fall/Stevens. For fiction authors, I feel like I'm not an author kind of person. Tolkien had a big influence on me, same for Poe and Neal Stephenson. I don't really read a lot of the authors that are considered classics/great writers. If someone asked me if I'd rather never have read "The Great Gatsby" or "Silence of the Lamb", I'd readily purge Gatsby from my brain. I suppose the fiction author our generation will remember is xGPT.