To Read Computer Science Books
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
by:
Clifford Stoll
4.28 avg rating — 15,267 ratings 3. 
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by:
Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating — 28,489 ratings 
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Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything
by:
Steven Levy
3.98 avg rating — 1,272 ratings 7. 
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
by:
Katie Hafner
3.94 avg rating — 4,853 ratings 8. 
Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer
by:
Paul Freiberger
4.16 avg rating — 1,328 ratings 9. 
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by:
Jon Gertner
4.20 avg rating — 8,529 ratings 
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.12 avg rating — 39,127 ratings 12. 
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
by:
Charles Petzold
4.27 avg rating — 1,153 ratings 13. 
OOP Concepts Booster : Take Your Coding Skills to the Next Level
by:
Rakesh Singh
3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings 14. 
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
by:
Charles Petzold
4.40 avg rating — 10,332 ratings 15. 
Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
by:
Howard Rheingold
4.08 avg rating — 120 ratings 16. 
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
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George Dyson
3.60 avg rating — 4,673 ratings 17. 
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date 4.03 avg rating — 1,966 ratings
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Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists
by:
Dennis E. Shasha
3.87 avg rating — 189 ratings 20. 
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
by:
Kurt W. Beyer
3.77 avg rating — 304 ratings 20. 
The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
by:
Lance Fortnow
3.59 avg rating — 493 ratings 22. 
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by:
Fred Turner
3.98 avg rating — 656 ratings 
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Engines of Logic: Mathematicians & the Origin of the Computer
by:
Martin D. Davis
4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings 27. 
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
by:
Ronald Graham
4.34 avg rating — 1,857 ratings 29. 
Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
by:
Stephen Wolfram
3.62 avg rating — 505 ratings 30. 
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age 4.13 avg rating — 2,422 ratings
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by:
John Markoff
3.82 avg rating — 1,141 ratings 33. 
On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
by:
Michael A. Banks
3.53 avg rating — 36 ratings 
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The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
by:
Martin D. Davis
4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings 37. 
Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security 4.23 avg rating — 181 ratings
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal 4.55 avg rating — 1,538 ratings
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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by:
Scott Rosenberg
3.71 avg rating — 3,093 ratings 
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
by:
Erich Gamma
4.19 avg rating — 11,823 ratings 
