 | The Art of Computer Programming: v. 1-3: Bd. 1: Fundamental Algorithms / Bd. 2: Seminumerical Algorithms / Bd. 3: Sorting and Searching: Vol 1-3 (Series in Computer Science & Information Processing) by Donald E. Knuth
Buy new: £60.79 / Used from: £50.00 The works !
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 | The C Programming Language (Prentice-Hall Software Series) by Brian W. Kernighan
Buy used from: £40.00 The only C book you'll ever need.
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 | The C++ Programming Language: Third Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup
Buy new: £22.79 / Used from: £5.07 C++ from the guy who created it.
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 | Programming Perl: There's More Than One Way To Do It by Larry Wall
Buy new: £24.01 / Used from: £10.76 How to read a write-only langauge.
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 | Essential System Administration: Help for Unix System Administrators (Nutshell Handbook) by Aeleen Frisch
Buy used from: £0.01 For anyone running a *nix system.
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 | Common LISP: The Language (HP Technologies) by Guy Steele
Buy used from: £39.83 Cool
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 | The Mythical Man Month and Other Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Buy new: £13.79 / Used from: £7.52 Brooks Law: Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.
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 | The Illuminatus!: Trilogy by Robert Shea
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £3.03 One of the funniest books ever written...
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 | The Hitchhiker Trilogy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £0.01 ...The other funniest books ever written.
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 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Coronet Books) by John Le Carre
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.01 A bit dated as a spy novel, but as a metaphor for contemporary corporate politics it can't be beaten.
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 | Alice in Wonderland (Penguin Classics) by Hugh Haughton
Buy used from: £0.01 Pure nonesense
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 | Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Ralph Leighton
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.41 Adventures of a curious character
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 | No Logo: No Space. No Choice. No Jobs by Naomi Klein
Buy new: £5.20 / Used from: £0.22 Chomsky for the MTV generation.
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 | The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll
Buy new: £14.57 / Used from: £1.12 A fascinating tale of white hats, black hats, and the American security services.
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.24 A childrens book for adults or an adults book for children?
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