Best Popular Computer Science Books on Goodreads

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AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors 4.28 avg rating — 7,283 ratings
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26,834 ratings
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect 3.94 avg rating — 6,383 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 3.85 avg rating — 20,391 ratings
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A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains 4.46 avg rating — 3,333 ratings
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Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines 4.11 avg rating — 1,481 ratings
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values 4.35 avg rating — 4,516 ratings
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The C Programming Language
The C Programming Language 4.44 avg rating — 11,169 ratings
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma 3.82 avg rating — 12,139 ratings
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The Age of AI and Our Human Future
The Age of AI and Our Human Future 3.45 avg rating — 4,964 ratings
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Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World 3.71 avg rating — 699 ratings
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Co-Intelligence: The Definitive, Bestselling Guide to Living and Working with AI
Co-Intelligence: The Definitive, Bestselling Guide to Living and Working with AI 3.97 avg rating — 11,551 ratings
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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future 3.84 avg rating — 5,189 ratings
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Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
by: Mo Gawdat
3.82 avg rating — 3,017 ratings
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering 4.01 avg rating — 14,862 ratings
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master 4.33 avg rating — 23,515 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,684 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography 4.30 avg rating — 28,489 ratings
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming 3.95 avg rating — 5,346 ratings
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction 4.30 avg rating — 9,436 ratings
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Introduction to Algorithms
Introduction to Algorithms 4.35 avg rating — 9,239 ratings
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship 4.36 avg rating — 22,976 ratings
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms 4.38 avg rating — 1,884 ratings
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions 4.13 avg rating — 34,102 ratings
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 4.47 avg rating — 4,821 ratings
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution 4.16 avg rating — 8,457 ratings
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs 4.15 avg rating — 1,331,329 ratings
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams 4.14 avg rating — 9,867 ratings
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software 4.40 avg rating — 10,330 ratings
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Designing Data-Intensive Applications 4.70 avg rating — 9,979 ratings
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software 4.19 avg rating — 11,823 ratings
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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability 4.24 avg rating — 30,312 ratings
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security 3.77 avg rating — 7,162 ratings
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The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday Things 4.15 avg rating — 46,466 ratings
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You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place 4.13 avg rating — 4,615 ratings
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing: The Enigma 3.75 avg rating — 11,795 ratings
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Pro Git
Pro Git 4.17 avg rating — 3,374 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 29,315 ratings
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Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide 4.04 avg rating — 1,983 ratings
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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans 4.35 avg rating — 3,491 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood 4.04 avg rating — 16,840 ratings
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The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
by: Gene Kim
4.30 avg rating — 5,750 ratings
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage 4.28 avg rating — 15,267 ratings
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Head First Design Patterns
Head First Design Patterns 4.30 avg rating — 8,930 ratings
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code 4.24 avg rating — 8,765 ratings
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Programming Pearls
Programming Pearls 4.20 avg rating — 3,209 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine 4.12 avg rating — 9,241 ratings
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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World 3.97 avg rating — 2,729 ratings
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker 3.96 avg rating — 26,864 ratings
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The Little Schemer
The Little Schemer 4.29 avg rating — 1,978 ratings
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution 4.12 avg rating — 39,126 ratings
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The Algorithm Design Manual
The Algorithm Design Manual 4.34 avg rating — 2,669 ratings
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The Emperor's New Mind
The Emperor's New Mind 3.91 avg rating — 7,531 ratings
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The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook 3.59 avg rating — 16,994 ratings
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Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)
by: Kent Beck
4.12 avg rating — 4,051 ratings
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Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age 4.05 avg rating — 9,490 ratings
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JavaScript: The Good Parts
JavaScript: The Good Parts 4.23 avg rating — 8,655 ratings
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe 3.60 avg rating — 4,673 ratings
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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World 3.74 avg rating — 6,369 ratings
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Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet 3.51 avg rating — 3,855 ratings
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet 3.94 avg rating — 4,853 ratings
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age 4.16 avg rating — 2,735 ratings
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On Intelligence
On Intelligence 4.11 avg rating — 6,920 ratings
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How Google Works
How Google Works 4.05 avg rating — 29,326 ratings
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control 4.05 avg rating — 4,713 ratings
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Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People
Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People 4.42 avg rating — 5,145 ratings
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Agile Web Development with Rails, 1st Edition
Agile Web Development with Rails, 1st Edition 3.86 avg rating — 2,224 ratings
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The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers 4.26 avg rating — 9,156 ratings
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Joel on Software
Joel on Software 4.13 avg rating — 3,373 ratings
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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think 3.69 avg rating — 8,660 ratings
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The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data 3.97 avg rating — 5,336 ratings
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line 3.81 avg rating — 8,074 ratings
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HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites
HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites 4.30 avg rating — 4,867 ratings
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Modern Operating Systems
Modern Operating Systems 4.15 avg rating — 2,179 ratings
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TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) 4.32 avg rating — 1,300 ratings
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Mastering Regular Expressions
Mastering Regular Expressions 4.16 avg rating — 2,097 ratings
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A Philosophy of Software Design
A Philosophy of Software Design 4.22 avg rating — 4,153 ratings
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Computer Networks
Computer Networks 4.12 avg rating — 2,395 ratings
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Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C 4.21 avg rating — 2,132 ratings
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Algorithms
Algorithms 4.42 avg rating — 1,814 ratings
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You Don't Know JS: Up & Going
You Don't Know JS: Up & Going 4.35 avg rating — 2,531 ratings
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Head First Java
Head First Java 4.24 avg rating — 4,195 ratings
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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software 4.15 avg rating — 5,730 ratings
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives 3.84 avg rating — 29,917 ratings
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Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science 4.34 avg rating — 1,857 ratings
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Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs 4.40 avg rating — 3,339 ratings
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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers
Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers 3.89 avg rating — 1,646 ratings
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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach 4.12 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
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Implementing Domain-Driven Design
Implementing Domain-Driven Design 4.04 avg rating — 1,273 ratings
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Discrete Mathematics and its Applications
Discrete Mathematics and its Applications 3.89 avg rating — 1,527 ratings
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The Society of Mind
The Society of Mind 4.04 avg rating — 3,332 ratings
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Learning Perl
Learning Perl 3.99 avg rating — 1,857 ratings
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Operating System Concepts
Operating System Concepts 3.90 avg rating — 2,184 ratings
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The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers
The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers 3.91 avg rating — 3,571 ratings
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age 4.13 avg rating — 2,422 ratings
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Spring in Action
Spring in Action 3.93 avg rating — 1,363 ratings
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Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual
Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual 3.84 avg rating — 2,834 ratings
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The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses 4.39 avg rating — 3,332 ratings
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Gödel's Proof
Gödel's Proof 4.19 avg rating — 5,500 ratings
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Feynman Lectures on Physics 4.61 avg rating — 8,001 ratings
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