On: ASK HN: Hacker Bibles

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The Algorithm Design Manual - Skiena

Purely Functional Data Structures - Okasaki

Algorithmics - Harel

The Practice of Programming - Kernighan & Pike

Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems - Bernstein, Hadzilacos, Goodman.

Recovery in Parallel Database Systems - Hvasshovd

ACM Turing Award Lectures