I'm trying to build the ultimate collection of hacker bibles. These include books on programming languages, algorithms, mathematics, theory, engineering principles and methodologies, design, paradigms, operating systems, frameworks, industry commentary, business/startup-related, etc.
Below are my favorites (in no particular order), what other "greats" am I missing?
The Art of Computer Programming (three volumes + fascicles) - Knuth (aka TAOCP)
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Abelson and Sussman (aka SICP, aka The Wizard Book)
Introduction to Algorithms - Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein (aka CLRS)
Design Patterns - Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
The C Programming Language - Kernighan, Ritchie
The C++ Programming Language - Stroustrup
The Scheme Programming Language - Dybvig
Practical Common LISP - Seibel
Programming Perl - Wall, Christiansen and Orwant
ANSI Common Lisp - Graham
Refactoring - Fowler
UML Distilled - Fowler
Introduction to the Theory of Computation - Sisper
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms - MacKay
Modern Operating Systems - Tanenbaum
On Lisp - Graham
Hackers & Painters - Graham
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence - Norvig
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning - Bishop
The Java Language Specification - Gosling, Joy, Steele
Learning Python - Lutz & Ascher
Programming Erlang - Armstrong
Programming Ruby - Thomas, Fowler, Hunt
Calculus - Spivak
How to Solve It - Polya
The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 FreeBSD Operating System - McKusick, Bostic, Karels, Quarterman
The Design of the Unix Operating System - Bach
The Unix Programming Environment - Kernighan, Pike
The Art of Unix Programming - Raymond
Godel, Escher, Bach - Hofstadter
Metamagical Themas - Hofstadter
Joel on Software - Spolsky
Code Complete - McConneli
The Mythical Man-Month - Brooks
No Silver Bullet - Brooks
The Long Tail - Anderson
The Art of the Start - Kawasaki
Understanding the Linux Kernel is surprisingly thorough not just in its coverage of the Linux kernel, but also architecture and OS design in general
The Design and Implementation of FBSD book now covers 5.3, which is much less dated than the 4.4 text.
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is one of my favorite CS books and covers AI topics with surprising clarity.
The Design of Everyday Things
Linkers & Loaders, I'd hesitate to call this a bible of any sort, but it's a rarely-referenced gem that covers a topic few others do and it's relevant to me, at least.
Probably others I'm missing. This is a very good list though.