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The K&R C book.

Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language.

Code Complete is a similar very good one

- Code Complete - 1st Edition. I have both Editions 1 and 2. Edition 1 is very good and has a lot of stuff worth reading and practicing.

How to Solve It, by Georg Polya.

Programming Pearls, and More Programming Pearls, by Jon Bentley.

all 3 by Bentley

The Unix Programming Environment, by Kernighan and Pike.

Kernighan and Pike's The Unix Programming Environment.

Object-Oriented Software Construction, by Bertrand Meyer

another classic. I had bought it early on and read almost the whole thing.

Things or issues that seem impossible to solve, yet they (Tintin, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus) come out of them successfully most of the time

The drawings / illustrations in Asterix and Tintin comics are just great. I like them almost more than the stories or characters

Programming Pearls, and More Programming Pearls, by Jon Bentley.

the same goes for More Programming Pearls - all 3 by Bentley

I had read a good amount of Starting Forth by Leo Brodie some years ago, and liked the language

"The Monk who sold his Ferrari" is a good one.

>UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook. That's a great book. I've read parts of both the Unix and later Linux versions.