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Oh yes. Grad school is all reading. I recall reading these books in their entirety.

Security Engineering. Ross Anderson

The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages. Glynn Wynskell.

Communicating Sequential Processes. Tony Hoare. This book is surprising in its compactness and lucidity.

Pi Calculus. Robin Milner.

Semantics With Applications. Hanne Riis Nielson

On Concurrent Programming. Fred Schneider.

Specifying Systems with TLA+. Leslie Lamport.

Distributed Algorithms. Nancy Lynch.

Reliable Distributed Computing. Ken Birman and Robert Van Renesse.

I'm sure I'll recall more as soon as I hit "reply".



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