This post only contains non-aff links While I'm certainly good at C, and have been the guy people asked the C and C toolchain questions at a couple places I've worked, I'd say you're in for more than 1 book to grok the topics you've expressed interest in, and haven't met the single book that does all you want. 1: If you're a python programmer, I do suggest staying with pure C and AWAY from C++. You have little use case for it if you can mix python and C and it is literally pain incarnate while you do not know every little bit of it and/or work with people who do not know every little bit of it. 2: Secondly, a single book on C will not get you where you're going. You will need several. 3: I'd stick with K&R for reference, but then go to the following two books for threading and all the other stuff like networking: You need these two books to get down C and it's ecosystem (make, autotools, etc): Advanced Unix Programming by Rochkind (Really good explanation of signals especially): http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-UNIX-Programming-Marc-Rochkin... (http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-UNIX-Programming-Marc-Rochkind/dp/0131411543/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269362485&sr=8-1)…
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