Programming Books

In no particular order:

• Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, by Merriam-Webster, Inc.
• Programming Perl, by Larry Wall et al.
• Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm, by Lincoln Stein
• The C Programming Language, 2nd edition, by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
• POSIX.1b-1993, Amendment 1
• POSIX.2, Volumes 1 and 2, 1st edition
• UNIX System Administration Handbook, 3rd edition, by Evi Nemeth et al.
• UNIX Network Programming, by W. Richard Stevens
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, by W. Richard Stevens
• The Practice of Programming, by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, by W. Richard Stevens
• Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume 1, 2nd edition, by Douglas E. Comer
• Computer Networks, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• The UNIX Programming Environment, by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike
• Firewalls and Internet Security, by William R. Cheswick and Steven R. Bellovin
• Building Internet Firewalls, by D. Brent Chapman and Elizabeth D. Zwicky
• Applied Cryptography, by Bruce Schneier
• A Quarter Century of UNIX, by Peter H. Salus
• The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System, by Marshall Kirk McKusick et al.
• The Design of the UNIX Operating System, by Maurice J. Bach
• Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition with Source Code, by John Lions
• The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1 – 3, by Donald E. Knuth
• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, by Niklaus Wirth

Yes, I know that a dictionary isn't really a “programming book,” but I use it so often (yes, while programming) that I'm including it in the list.