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Inspirational

• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (free online)
• Bootstrapping by Thierry Bardini (free online)

Non-computing books that are highly-relevant to computing

• How to Solve It by Polya (free online)
• How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand (more info)

Programming books with languages that no-one cares about, yet can teach us valueable lessons

• The LISP 1.5 Programmer’s Manual by John McCarthy, et al. (free online)
• Thinking Forth - by Leo Brodie (free online)
• Jess in Action by Ernest Friedman-Hill (free online)

A computing book that’s directly relevant to our work

• Site Reliability Engineering by numerous Google engineers (free online)