Books recommended by Brian Kernighan from cs.princeton.edu

John Viega, Gary McGraw

“Very practical guide to doing things better, especially for C programmers.”

Steve McConnell

“McConnell gives practical advice, clearly derived from real experience, in all his books. Code Complete is for individual programmers.”

Josh Bloch

“An excellent guide to good practice for experienced Java programmers.”

Steve Lohr

“It seems very accurate in the places where I know the story, and it's often fascinating.”

Darrell Huff

“A wonderful little book that will immunize you for a lifetime against statistical chicanery and meaningless numerical presentations.”

Jon Bentley

“Lots of good insight into how to approach programming tasks, with an emphasis on algorithms.”

Steve McConnell

“Well worth reading if you ever become involved in any kind of software project.”

Steve Krug

“A useful (and very short) book on user interfaces.”

William Strunk Jr., E.B. White

“The best small book on the topic.”

Fred Brooks

“The great classic of software engineering, one of the few computer science books that repays frequent reading.”

Michael Howard, David LeBlanc

“A more Microsoft-focused take on the same problem, and a nice complement to Viega and McGraw.”

Steve Maguire

“A good shorter companion for McConnell's Code Complete, also full of good advice.”