nonfiction broad-interest: Steven Levy: Hackers Tracy Kidder: The Soul of a New Machine Cristopher Moore and Stephan Mertens: The Nature of Computation fiction/fun: Neal Stephenson: Reamde (note the spelling) Geoffrey James: The Tao of Programming nonfiction textbookish but worth reading through: Marc Rochkind: Advanced UNIX Programming W. Richard Stevens: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment Michael Kerrisk: The Linux Programming Interface Thompson and Ritchie: Bell System Technical Journal "The UNIX Time-Sharing System" and all the other reprints in which they discuss the evolution of UNIX Kernighan and Ritchie: The C Programming Language

excellent choice - this book is wonderful.