What are the most influential books every programmer should read?

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The Pragmatic Programmer
83 Recommendations
Introduction to Algorithms
52 Recommendations
The Design of Everyday Things
29 Recommendations
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
37 Recommendations
The Mythical Man-Month
65 Recommendations
Code Complete
49 Recommendations
Structure and Intepretation of Computer Programs
38 Recommendations
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
27 Recommendations
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
9 Recommendations
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
12 Recommendations
The Art of Computer Programming
7 Recommendations
Refactoring
5 Recommendations
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
5 Recommendations
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
4 Recommendations
The C Programming Language
3 Recommendations
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
3 Recommendations
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
3 Recommendations
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
3 Recommendations
The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
2 Recommendations
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
2 Recommendations
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
2 Recommendations
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
1 Recommendations
Let Over Lambda
2 Recommendations
The Practice of Programming
1 Recommendations
A New Kind of Science
2 Recommendations
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
2 Recommendations
Purely Functional Data Structures
1 Recommendations
Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems
1 Recommendations
The End of Average
1 Recommendations
The Algorithm Design Manual
1 Recommendations
G. Polya, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
1 Recommendations
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1 Recommendations
The Art of Prolog: Advanced Programming Techniques
1 Recommendations
The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math
1 Recommendations
The Phoenix Project
1 Recommendations
The DevOps Handbook
1 Recommendations
The Art of Unit Testing
1 Recommendations
The Passionate Programmer
1 Recommendations
How to Design Programs
1 Recommendations
Practices of an Agile Developer
1 Recommendations
Applied Cryptography
1 Recommendations
To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles: Including an Amazing Adventure in Combinatory Logic
0 Recommendations
An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus
0 Recommendations
Computability and Logic
0 Recommendations
The Science of Programming
0 Recommendations
Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)
0 Recommendations
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
0 Recommendations
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
0 Recommendations
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
0 Recommendations
How to read a Book
1 Recommendations
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