Ask HN: What fiction/non-fiction book should everyone read on the topic of CS?

Gödel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter, 1979)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was a HN favorite, but seems to have dropped off the charts.

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

Personally really enjoyed Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Soul of a New Machine

The Soul of a New Machine

Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder, 1981)

Mythical Man Month by Frederick Brooks

TAoCP is worth trying to read.

The Little Schemer. Just for the joy of solving problems.

The Phoenix Project.

John Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" I liked.

Came here to say this.

The Cuckoo's Egg (Clifford Stoll, 1989)

The Art of Unix Programming.

The Linux Programming Interface.