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Regarding K&R C, you should read it for its historical relevance to the C programming language

"Code Complete" from Steve McConnell

"Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition" from Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

Secure C from Oreilly and Modern C from Manning are more relevant in 2022.

"API Design for C++" from Martin Reddy

the Windows Internals series is a requirement

"Algorithms and Data Structures" from Niklaus Wirth.

"From Mathematics to Generic Programming" from Alexander Stepanov and Daniel Rose

"The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management" from Richard Jones and Antony Hosking