What do Computer Scientists Read? - Computerphile

Published: 24 December 2022
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Throughout 2022 we asked the sound-check question "what's your favourite book?"

Answers:
Structured Computer Organization
Andrew S. Tanenbaum

UNIX: A History and a Memoir
Brian W Kernighan

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Fred Brooks

Understanding Cryptography: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners
Christof Paar , Jan Pelzl , et al.

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

Bad Blood
John Carreyrou

Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe

A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal
Ben Macintyre

The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse

Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton
William F. Buckley Jr.

House of Sleep
Jonathan Coe

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North

The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter

Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14
Scott Meyers

All Systems Red (Kindle Single): The Murderbot Diaries
Martha Wells

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos Book 1)
Dan Simmons


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