Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
The books that taught me computer science - Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces ( https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/) - Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (https://dataintensive.net) - Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom (http://craftinginterpreters.com)
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Although I haven't completed it fully, but it is absolutely a masterpiece. The structure and the lucid explanation is something every author should learn from this. Not too yechnifal and yet covers every fundamental aspect. This alongwith Nand2Tetris course can make your understanding of computer and programming works almost complete.
This book broke down a hard and mysterious topic (operating systems) for a new CS student like me into everyday analogies, which almost eradicated my fear of the subject matter. It had the appropriate amount of technical details to be usefully informative for a college class while also inspiring a more in-depth read of other material that are much more boring. The book is the reason why I love operating system so much, and I continued to take more CS classes as a math major.
> Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems I found Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces to be better. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
I love "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces": http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ Really useful book and really accessible (both because it's available for free and also because it's written with a lot of skill and friendliness towards the reader). I recommend it in particular to those who for whatever reason never took an operating systems class (e.g., you were self-taught or didn't major in CS). This book will really demystify a lot of stuff for you without overwhelming you at the same time.