| title | authors | links | year | pages | languagesUsed | publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Art of Computer Programming | Donald E. Knuth | homepage | 1968 | 3168 | Addison-Wesley | |
| The Mythical Man-Month | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | homepage | 1975 | 336 | Addison-Wesley | |
| Recursive Programming Techniques | William H. Burge | 1975 | 300 | Addison-Wesley | ||
| The C Programming Language | Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie | homepage | 1978 | 288 | c | Prentice Hall |
| Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs | Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman | 1985 | 657 | scheme lisp | MIT Press | |
| Programming Pearls | Jon Bentley | homepage | 1986 | 256 | Addison-Wesley | |
| The TeXbook | Donald E. Knuth | 1986 | 640 | Addison-Wesley | ||
| Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools | Alfred V. Aho and Monica S. Lam and Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman | 1986 | 1040 | Pearson Education | ||
| Introduction to Algorithms | Thomas H. Cormen and Charles E. Leiserson and Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein | homepage | 1990 | 1312 | MIT Press | |
| Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming | Peter Norvig | source | 1992 | 368 | lisp | Morgan Kaufmann |
| Code Complete | Steve McConnell | homepage | 1993 | 960 | Microsoft Press | |
| Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software | Erich Gamma and Richard Helm and Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides | homepage | 1994 | 395 | cpp smalltalk | Addison-Wesley |
| The Little Schemer | Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen | homepage | 1995 | 216 | scheme | MIT Press |
| Introduction to the Theory of Computation | Michael Sipser | homepage | 1996 | 504 | Cengage Learning | |
| The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn | Richard W. Hamming | homepage | 1997 | 376 | CRC Press | |
| The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery | Andrew Hunt and David Thomas | homepage | 1999 | 352 | Addison-Wesley | |
| Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code | Martin Fowler | homepage | 1999 | 448 | java | Addison-Wesley |
| Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software | Charles Petzold | homepage | 1999 | 400 | Microsoft Press | |
| Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence | Ivan Bratko | homepage | 2000 | 704 | prolog | Addison-Wesley |
| Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby | Why the Lucky Stiff | homepage source | 2000 | 128 | ruby | Penguin Books |
| Effective Java | Joshua Bloch | homepage | 2001 | 416 | java | Addison-Wesley |
| Thinking Forth | Leo Brodie | homepage source pdf | 2001 | 160 | forth | MIT Press |
| The Cathedral and the Bazaar | Eric S. Raymond | homepage | 2001 | 352 | O'Reilly Media | |
| Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture | Martin Fowler | homepage | 2002 | 560 | Addison-Wesley | |
| Types and Programming Languages | Benjamin C. Pierce | homepage pdf | 2002 | 648 | MIT Press | |
| Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software | Eric Evans | homepage | 2003 | 560 | Addison-Wesley | |
| The Art of Unix Programming | Eric S. Raymond | homepage | 2003 | 352 | unix | Addison-Wesley |
| The Fun of Programming | Jeremy Gibbons and Oege de Moor | 2003 | 277 | haskell | Red Globe Press | |
| Head First Design Patterns | Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson and Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra | homepage | 2004 | 694 | java | O'Reilly Media |
| Working Effectively with Legacy Code | Michael Feathers | homepage | 2004 | 456 | Prentice Hall | |
| Practical Common Lisp | Peter Seibel | homepage | 2005 | 504 | lisp | Apress |
| Mastering Regular Expressions | Jeffrey E. F. Friedl | homepage | 2006 | 542 | O'Reilly Media | |
| Beautiful Code | Andy Oram and Greg Wilson | homepage | 2007 | 592 | O'Reilly Media | |
| Programming Collective Intelligence | Toby Segaran | homepage | 2007 | 256 | python | O'Reilly Media |
| Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship | Robert C. Martin | homepage | 2008 | 464 | java | Prentice Hall |
| Cracking the Coding Interview | Gayle Laakmann McDowell | homepage | 2008 | 708 | java cpp | CareerCup |
| Let Over Lambda | Doug Hoyte | homepage source | 2008 | 376 | lisp | MIT Press |
| Real World Haskell | Bryan O'Sullivan and Don Stewart and John Goerzen | homepage | 2008 | 714 | haskell | O'Reilly Media |
| JavaScript: The Good Parts | Douglas Crockford | homepage | 2008 | 176 | javascript | O'Reilly Media |
| Version Control with Git | Prem Kumar Ponuthorai and Jon Loeliger | homepage | 2009 | 546 | O'Reilly Media | |
| Coders at Work | Peter Seibel | homepage | 2009 | 632 | Apress | |
| The Passionate Programmer | Chad Fowler | homepage | 2009 | 232 | Pragmatic Bookshelf | |
| Erlang Programming | Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson | homepage | 2009 | 498 | erlang | O'Reilly Media |
| The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers | Robert C. Martin | homepage | 2011 | 256 | Pearson | |
| Eloquent JavaScript | Marijn Haverbeke | homepage pdf | 2011 | 472 | javascript | No Starch Press |
| Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! | Miran Lipovača | homepage source | 2011 | 400 | haskell | No Starch Press |
| Eloquent Ruby | Russ Olsen | homepage | 2011 | 448 | ruby | Addison-Wesley |
| Engineering a Compiler | Keith D. Cooper and Linda Torczon | 2011 | 824 | Morgan Kaufmann | ||
| The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference | Terence Parr | homepage | 2012 | 328 | antlr | Pragmatic Bookshelf |
| Homotopy Type Theory | Mike Shulman and Andrej Bauer | homepage source pdf | 2012 | 400 | Princeton University Press | |
| Practical Vim | Drew Neil | homepage | 2012 | 320 | vim | Pragmatic Bookshelf |
| The Phoenix Project | Gene Kim and Kevin Behr and George Spafford | homepage | 2013 | 382 | IT Revolution Press | |
| Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual | John Sonmez | homepage | 2014 | 504 | Manning Publications | |
| Modern Operating Systems | Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Herbert Bos | homepage | 2014 | 960 | Pearson | |
| You Don't Know JS | Kyle Simpson | source | 2015 | 1128 | javascript | O'Reilly Media |
| Python Crash Course | Eric Matthes | homepage | 2015 | 560 | python | No Starch Press |
| The Pattern On The Stone | Daniel Hillis | homepage | 2015 | 191 | Basic Books | |
| Beautiful Racket | Matthias Felleisen and Robby Findler and Matthew Flatt | homepage source | 2015 | 288 | MIT Press | |
| The Go Programming Language | Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan | homepage | 2015 | 400 | go | Addison-Wesley |
| Essentials of Compilation | Jeremy G. Siek | source | 2015 | racket python x86-assembly | ||
| Clojure for the Brave and True | Daniel Higginbotham | homepage | 2015 | 328 | clojure | No Starch Press |
| Elixir in Action | Saša Jurić | homepage | 2015 | 384 | elixir | Manning Publications |
| Effective Python | Brett Slatkin | homepage | 2015 | 256 | python | Addison-Wesley |
| Groovy in Action | Dierk König and Paul King and Guillaume Laforge and Cédric Champeau and Hamlet D'Arcy | homepage | 2015 | 912 | groovy | Manning Publications |
| Grokking Algorithms | Aditya Bhargava | homepage | 2016 | 256 | python | Manning Publications |
| The DevOps Handbook | Gene Kim and Jez Humble and Patrick Debois and John Willis | homepage | 2016 | 480 | IT Revolution Press | |
| Programming in Scala | Martin Odersky and Lex Spoon and Bill Venners and Frank Sommers | homepage | 2016 | 667 | scala | Artima Press |
| Haskell Programming from First Principles | Christopher Allen and Julie Moronuki | homepage | 2016 | 889 | haskell | Gumroad |
| Designing Data-Intensive Applications | Martin Kleppmann | homepage | 2017 | 616 | O'Reilly Media | |
| The Reasoned Schemer | Daniel P. Friedman and William E. Byrd and Oleg Kiselyov and Jason Hemann | homepage | 2018 | 208 | scheme | MIT Press |
| The Rust Programming Language | Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols | homepage source | 2018 | 552 | rust | No Starch Press |
| Programming Elixir ≥ 1.6 | Dave Thomas | homepage | 2018 | 398 | elixir | Pragmatic Bookshelf |
| Writing A Compiler In Go | Thorsten Ball | homepage | 2018 | 288 | go | No Starch Press |
| Programming TypeScript | Boris Cherny | homepage | 2019 | 324 | typescript | O'Reilly Media |
| Pharo by Example 9 | Stéphane Ducasse and Gordana Rakic and Sebastian Kaplar and Quentin Ducasse | homepage source pdf | 2021 | 318 | pharo | Keepers of the lighthouse |
| Crafting Interpreters | Robert Nystrom | homepage source | 2021 | 600 | java | |
| Janet for Mortals | Ian Henry | homepage | 2023 | janet |