Knuth: he's an excellent writer with a sense of humor. Anything coauthored by Kernighan is a good bet, though the material is not quite so ageless. Similar rem

Knuth: he's an excellent writer with a sense of humor. Anything coauthored by Kernighan is a good bet, though the material is not quite so ageless. Similar remarks for P.J. Plauger. Norvig doesn't just write exquisite code, but good prose too. I always liked Abelson & Sussman's style, even though it's more textbookish. Abelson also co-wrote Turtle Geometry, which is almost unknown these days and still eye-opening. (It's more of a math book than a programming one, but its point is to be both.) Daniel Hillis: The Pattern on the Stone, The Connection Machine. Richard O'Keefe, The Craft of Prolog. Jon Bentley. I remember pg's On Lisp as good.