PaulW.XYZ / Pages / Recommended

If the one you're looking for is not on this list, it is most likely I haven't had the chance to read it yet or I may have put it on the Resources page, if it is freely available.

Books

Technology

C programming

• The C Programming Language [K&R] duh
• Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden
• Practical C Programming by Steve Oualline (kind of outdated but still good)

Operating Systems

• Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by W. Richard Stevens
• Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Andrew S. Tanenbaum (I haven't had a chance to read his other books on OS. I am not a fan of his networking book though.)

Computer Engineering

• Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software by Elecia White

Compilers

• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools [Dragon Book] (discusses theory in detail so it is kind of hard to read)

Other

• Definitive Guide to sed: Tutorial and Reference

Classics

Only the English ones for now.

• A Tale of Two Cities
• The Mayor of Casterbridge
• The Citadel
• Oliver Twist
• Macbeth
• Othello
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Languages

• Lingua Latina per se Illustrata (Both parts)

Movies

• Blade Runner 2049
• The Hateful Eight
• Goodfellas
• Inception
• Memento
• The Grand Budapest Hotel

Music

• Große Fuge Op. 133
• KV 387
• KV 448
• BWV 1048
• Prelude in G Minor (Op. 23 No. 5)
• String Quartet, Op. 20 No. 2 (Haydn)

Video Games

• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Portal 2